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The goal of this study is to see if using a scientific approach might help students enhance their communication abilities in social studies classes. A one-group pretest-posttest research design was adopted in this research. The research participants were students from SMP Negeri 46 Kerinci, with a total population of 95 students and a sample of 30 students from class VIII. The sampling approach used in this research was a random sample technique. Observation sheets and a communication skills assessment were used to collect data. IBM SPSS version 25 software was used to statistically analyze the research data. The findings imply that teaching social studies using a scientific approach has a significant influence on students’ communication skills. This is confirmed by the difference in average scores between the pretest and posttest tests. Also suggestive is a t-test significance value of 0.000 or less than 0.05.