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This research was carried out in order to examine whether there is meaningful relationship between the academic motivation and teaching attitudes of preservice teachers. In addition, this research aims to investigate whether this relationship has differences with regard to their gender, undergraduate department, graduated high school. Descriptive researh method was applied as study method of this research. Academic Motivation Scale and Teaching Attitude Scale was conducted for collecting necessary data. Participants of this research were 194 preservice teachers (73 female and 121 male), who have been attending teacher training program at a university after graduating from an undergraduate degree to be a certificated teacher. As finding of this research, there is meaningful relationship between introjection of extrinsic academic motivation and ambition subdimension of teaching attitudes and between intrinsic motivation and adjustment subdimension of teaching attitude regarding preservice teachers and there are some significant differences regarding academic motivation and teaching attitudes with regard to their gender, undergraduate department, graduated high school type. As suggestion concerning these results, suitable activities which can increase the academic motivation and provide positive attitudes regarding teaching can be implemented during undergraduate education for preservice teachers, who have meaningfully low level of attitudes and insufficient academic motivation.

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