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|b Literature usually refers to academic motivation, attitude toward teaching profession, and EFL teaching knowledge as significant variables that might seriously affect the pre-service preparation of EFL teachers. These variables are known to facilitate or hinder achieving the goals of EFL teacher preparation programmes to produce competent, skillful, and enthusiastic teachers of English Language. Moreover, the interplay of these three variables may have an additional effect, not only on students' preparation, but on their future professional life as EFL teachers. The present study aims at finding out the relationship between these three variables with respect to Iraqi EFL student teachers. The population of the study consists of fourth year students at the departments of English of the two colleges of education (College of Education for Human Sciences/Ibn Rushd and College of Education for Women) of Baghdad University .While the sample consists of 121 fourth year students from these two departments. To achieve the aims of the study, the required data is collected via three instruments. These are; an academic motivation questionnaire, an attitude toward teaching profession questionnaire and an EFL teaching knowledge test. The results of the study show that Iraqi EFL student teachers have a low level of academic motivation, a negative attitude toward teaching profession, and a low level of TEFL knowledge. The study results also report strong and positive relationships between EFL student teachers’ academic motivation and attitude toward teaching profession, academic motivation and TEFL knowledge, and attitude toward teaching profession and TEFL knowledge. In the light of the study results, a set of suggestions and remedial recommendations are presented.
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