A small-scale motivational questionnaire was used to collect data in the second semester of the 2012-2013 academic year (May 2013). The questionnaire was divided into 2 main sections. Following Wimolmas (2013), in order to identify students’ motivation, the first section (Section A) comprised 20 questions based on Gardner’s Attitude/Motivation Test Battery (AMTB) (Attitude/Motivation Index, AMI)), as well as Prapphals’ Attitudes Testing (Prapphal, 1981). The subjects were asked to rank the 20 statements on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from ‘strongly disagree’ (1) to ‘strongly agree’ (5). The statements represented two motivational constructs: integrative motivation (items 1-10) and instrumental motivation (items 11-20).
The second section of the questionnaire (Section B) included 3 open-ended questions addressing the issue of participants’ initial motivation to study their degree and become Primary English teachers (items 21-23).