I Have Decided to Become an English Teacher: Motivation to Learn and Teach English in Turkey

Teacher education has been subjected to number of research studies over the last forty years and yet we are still trying to understand why people are attracted into teaching. Such a situation suggests that we need a different approach to understand the factors leading individuals to become teachers. Therefore, the basic purpose of the present study is to develop a valid and reliable instrument measuring motivations of student teachers to enter English teacher education programs.