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Pre-service teachers taking a teaching training program may hold different motives in choosing a career path as a teacher. The present study aims at investigating the types of motivation to choose a career as a teacher among participants from a teacher training program in a private university in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. A 24-item questionnaire was distributed to 14 respondents (N=14) to see the types of motivation the pre-service teachers had in their career choice and which was the dominant one. Of the result of the questionnaire, four students with the highest motivational level were purposefully selected to participate in a focus group interview and asked to describe their motivation to be English teachers. The findings indicated that the pre-service EFL teachers were dominantly motivated by altruistic and intrinsic motives in choosing to be EFL teachers. Extrinsic motivation, on the other hand, seemed to bring the least contribution in the pre-service teachers- decision to take teaching as a profession. Implications and future recommendations were offered.