Teaching speaking recount text is one of material in learning teaching process which aimed to
make the students can retell their past experiences in recount text. The purposes of this
research are to describe the implementation of conversation starter in teaching speaking
recount text and to describe the students’ responses using conversation starter starter in
teaching speaking recount text to retell their past experiences. The subjects of this study were
32 tenth grade students of Social. This research used descriptive research design where data
analysis that used were data reduction, data display and conclusion drawing. To get the data
activity of using the conversation starter in learning teaching process, the reseacher used field
note while the result of students’ questionnaires was used by the researcher to get the
students’ responses in using conversation starter to retell their past experience. From the result
of students’ questionnaires found that, about 59,37% students agree conversation starter helps
them in speaking confidently when they retell their past experience. From the result of the
average of students’ questionnaires, about 61,87% siswa gave the agree respons. Based from
the result of percentage can be concluded that the students agree that conversation starter used
by the teacher in teaching speaking recount text.