One of the important part of english is speaking.speaking is an activity that is usually used by people to communicate with other,for example in teaching and learning.communication is the key and tool to ransfer the information to the students.the students need to communicacate with other people or friend to get new knoledge and information.in addition,bsaed on the researcer's experience,there are many students that are still afraid to speak english in froont of other paople directly.small group disscussion can be one method to face the problems in speaking for the students.this research focused on discovering the students' perception of english education departemen UMY on using small group discussion in teaching and learning procces