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ABSTRACT Athika frakusia, 2320053, "the effect of using concept cartoon to increase students speaking motivation at MTsN 6 Agam" a thesis, English Education. Department. UIN Sjech M. Djamil Djambek Bukittinggi, 2024. This research was aimed to discover the effect of using concept cartoon to increase students speaking motivation at the seventh grade of junior high school. It was done at MTsN 6 Agam. The researcher found some problems, there were the students have difficulty in speaking front of the class. First, lack of encouragement or support from the environment. Second, anxiety or fear of speaking in front of class. Then, learning process that is less varied and less interesting media so that students. are not motivated to learn English. This research used experimental research with quasi experimental design by using pre-questionnaire and post-questionnaire experimental and control group design. The population of this research was eight classes at seventh grade students in MTsN 6 Agam that taught by the same ability consisted of 253 students. To determine the sample the researcher used using simple random sampling. The samples were 7.6 as the experimental class and 7.9 as the control class. The data were got from the result of students speaking in the pre-questionnaire and post- questionnaire. The results of the paired sample t-test showed that the t value of 0,000 was smaller than the significance value of 0,05 with 31 degrees of freedom. The researcher rejected the null hyphothesis and accept the alternative hyphothesis, which showed that the use of concept cartoons had a significant effect on the learning motivation of MTs N 6 Agam class VII students in speaking. This study reveals that the use of the concept cartoons can increase students motivation to speak.