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The goal of Speaking Course in higher education is to develop student's ability to speak effectively. The aim of this research are: 1) to investigate the differences on students' speaking ability taught by Cooperative, Synectics, and CTL learning models, 2) to find the differences of speaking ability among the students with high motivation and low one, 3) to know the interactions between learning model and motivation toward speaking ability. This quasi experimental research used factorial design 3x2. The data were collected through questionnaire for measuring students' motivation for speaking, empirical test for knowing the validity and reliability of instruments as well as speaking test to measure speaking achievement. The research results showed that there were interactions between learning models and motivation for speaking toward speaking ability. The speaking score of students with high motivation and taught by cooperative learning model was better than them with synectics and CTL.