This paper discuses the enhancing of students' speaking skill through concept mapping strategy. Speaking skill is one skill to be mastered by university students especially in Speaking III. In this subject, students expressed his thoughts, ideas, opinions, and feelings to others verbally. In other hand, Speaking requires that learners not only know how to produce specific skills of language such as grammar, pronunciation, or vocabulary, but also they understand when, why and in what ways to

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... uce language, level identified three autonomous processing stages in speech production: (1) conceptualizing the message, (2) formulating the language representation, and (3) articulating the message. Concept mapping is been chosen to help them. Concept mapping is a strategy of organizing thoughts in a manner which allows them to flow clearly and logically. The important of concepts many researches such as Skinner, Piaget, and Gagne, believe that concepts and the clarity of them are considered to be essence of any discipline. It added by Novak, Concept Mapping is a strategy for visually representing the structure of information how within a domain are interrelated. The use of concept mapping can give a way to students in representing knowledge. It stated with this strategy, they can help to enrich vocabulary which they need to deliver. In order to achieve this objective, students have been assigned to make concept mapping every meetings. It found there is an enhancing of using concept mapping on developing the learning outcome effectively for speaking