The purpose of this study was to find out how students learn to master speaking skills and find out how students' performance in improving speaking skills is. This is shown by the way students learn by utilizing technology and the environment to learn and improve students' speaking skills. This research includes In classroom action research, the subjects of this research are 8th semester students, there are 3 classes in the English education department, each class consists of 40 students and the researcher only takes 2 samples from a population of 120 English students. The research was conducted by conducting personal interviews with the participants. The researcher made a schedule to conduct an interview via whatsapp, then after the researcher got the right time, the researcher made an audio call using whatsapp, the researcher asked some questions to the participants then the researcher made a field note for additional material working on the research results. Based on the research that has been done, only 20% of participants learn to use technology while 80% of the way participants learn is influenced by the environment because participants live in cottages and study in course institutions for 6 years. Method This research is a Narrative inquiry research. Researcher use thematic analysis to process the data. The results of this study can be a lesson for students that learning can not only be obtained from school but students can gain knowledge from someone's experience so that students can imitate the learning method of one of the participants of UIN Walisongo Semarang.