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This study aims at finding: (1) the correlation between communication strategies and speaking skill (2) the correlation between motivation and students‟ speaking skill; (3) the correlation between communication strategies, motivation, and speaking skill altogether. (4) the extent of the correlation. The study is a survey and takes the sample of 30 students from 67 students totally by using purposive sampling technique. The data-collecting methods include questionnaire and speaking test; and the collected data were analyzed statistically by using correlation and regression techniques. The result of the study was as follows: (1) there was a significant positive correlation between communication strategies (r1) 0,37 and speaking skill (2) there was a significance correlation between motivation (r2) 0,43 and students‟ speaking skill; (3) and the correlation between communication strategies, motivation, and speaking skill altogether (R) as 0,48. And the contribution of communication strategies toward speaking skill was 13, 69%, followed by contribution of motivation toward speaking skill was 18, 49%, and the contribution both of independent variable toward defendant variable was 23,04%. It implies that communication strategies and motivation predicted to the students‟ achievement in speaking skill.