The aim of this research is to find out whether: (1) cooperative learning threesteps-interview is more effective than direct method for the 11 vii th grade of SMA N 8 Kediri in the academic year of 2015/2016; (2) students having low creativity have better speaking skill than those having low creativity; and (3) there is an interaction between teaching methods and students’ creativity in teaching speaking skill for the 11 th grade of SMA N 8 Kediri in the academic year of 2015/2016. This research was an experimental research. Conducted at SMA N 8 Kediri, the population was all the 11 th grade of SMA N 8 Kediri in the academic year of 2015/2016. The researcher took the sample of the research by using cluster random sampling and devided the group into two. One became the experimental group, that was class XI science 1 taught using cooperative learning three-stepsinterview and the other one became the control group, that was class XI science 2 taught using direct method. The number of samples were arround of 60 students for two groups of the research sample. The technique of the data collection was oral test for speaking skill and written test for verbal creativity. The result of the test was score both of experimental group and control group. After collecting the data of the research sample, further the data was analyzed using ANOVA 2x2 and Tukey formula to test the research hypothesis. The results of this research show that: (1) cooperative learning three-stepsinterview (TSI) is more effective than direct method (DM) to teach speaking skill for the 11 th grade of SMA N 8 Kediri in the academic year of 2015/2016; (2) students having high creativity have better speaking skill than those having low creativity; and (3) there is an interaction between teaching methods and students’ creativity to teach speaking skill for the 11 th grade of SMA N 8 Kediri in the academic year of 2015/2016. At last, it is recomended that: (1) teacher should apply cooperative learning three-steps-interview (TSI) to teach speaking skill; (2) the students should apply three-steps-interview to explore their speaking skill; and (3) other researchers should make such an improvement by trying to use this research topic with different subject of the research and different psychological point of view besides creativity which may have correlation with students’ speaking skill.
