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Initial Career Motives and Demotivation in Teaching English as a Foreign Language: Cases of Korean EFL TeachersMotivos trabajo inicial y la desmotivación en la enseñanza del inglés como lengua extranjera: Los casos de los profesores coreanos
- Authors
- Kim, Tae-Young; Kim, Yoon-Kyoung
- Issue Date
- Jun-2015
- Publisher
- UNIV GRANADA
- Keywords
- EFL Teacher Motivation; Initial Career Motive; Demotivation; Global Orientation; Obstacles to Communicative Language Teaching; EFL profesor motivación; motivo de trabajo inicial; desmotivación; orien- tación global; obstáculos a la enseñanza de la lengua comunicativa
- Citation
- PORTA LINGUARUM, no.24, pp 77 - 92
- Pages
- 16
- Journal Title
- PORTA LINGUARUM
- Number
- 24
- Start Page
- 77
- End Page
- 92
- ISSN
- 1697-7467
- Abstract
- In order to broaden understanding of English as a foreign language (EFL) teacher motivation, this study examines Korean EFL teachers' initial job motives and demotivating factors. Four psychological constructs emerged regarding initial career motives: Global Orientation, Job Security, Altruism, and Ought-to Self Among the constructs, global orientation proved to be the most popular reason for choosing an EFL teaching career. This study also showed three constructs for detrimental factors on EFL teacher motivation: Obstacles to Communicative Language Teaching, Inadequate Administrative Support, and Lack of Social Recognition. It was shown that obstacles to communicative language teaching contributed to the greatest demotivation.
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