“…Teacher motivation is a key topic in educational psychology and is generally defined as the psychological motives that drive an individual to choose teaching as a career. The importance of teacher motivation for various aspects of teaching and learning has been widely recognized in the field of general education (Dörnyei and Ushioda, 2011;Richardson et al, 2014;Han and Yin, 2016;Hiver et al, 2018;Kissau et al, 2019a), such as the dropout rate of student teachers (Jungert et al, 2014), career decisions Richardson, 2007, 2008; Kissau et al, 2019a), teaching performance (Irnidayanti et al, 2020) and learning motivation of students (Wild et al, 1997;Atkinson, 2000;Roth et al, 2007;Radel et al, 2010;Jodaei et al, 2018). Since the1990s, in the field of second language education (Pennington, 1995), a considerable body of literature has explored the motivation to become a second language (L2) teacher.…”