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This paper seeks to investigate motivational orientations of Turkish prospective (pre-service) English
language teachers in a descriptive way. In a state university in Turkey, 35 male and 90 female pre-service
English language teachers participated in the study. These participants were 38 freshmen, 69 junior, and 18
senior students. A motivation scale adapted from Gobel and Mori (2006) was administered to the
participants. The results showed that pre-service English language teachers have a high level of the intrinsic,
integrative, and instrumental motivational orientations for learning English except the extrinsic one.
Moreover, although the female participants displayed higher motivation than their male counterparts, the
difference was not found robust enough excluding the intrinsic motivation. Moreover, it was obtained that
the motivation levels of learners showed fluctuations in the course of time, which is congruent with previous
studies. Lastly, the findings were further interpreted and elaborated within the discussion part.
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