The background of this research was based on the phenomenon that most students demonstrated low speaking proficiency. It was very rare to find the students who can speak English fluently. To create an interesting and enjoyable activity in the classroom, the teacher should be able to use different media to facilitate the teaching process since technology has brought innovation in education especially in language teaching. The main objective of this research is to explain the effectiveness of using the photograph to teach speaking of descriptive text. The researcher used a quantitative approach and the research design used experimental research. The sample of this research was EC-E as an experimental class which was taught by using photography and EC-C as a control class that was taught without using a photograph. Based on the collecting data, it was obtained that t-count = 17,81 and t-table
= 2.02. it showed that t-count > t-table (17,81 > 2.02). It means that there is a significant difference in students' speaking between students who are taught by using a photograph and those who are taught without a photograph.