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The study analyzed the effect of type of learners' learning motivation on their achievement in learning English. The mediating effect of self-efficacy was analyzed as a factor influencing the academic achievement. In addition, the study analyzed the difference in the effects according to the gender, grade, and major of English learners. The results showed that all types of learning motivation, including external motivation, intrinsic motivation, ideal motivation, and inevitable motivation, had a positive influence on academic achievement. The mediating effect of self-efficacy was found to be completely mediating in the process of external motivation affecting academic achievement. In addition, self-efficacy was found to have a full mediating effect even when inevitable motivation affects academic achievement. As a result of analyzing the effect of interaction with learning motivation using three variables--gender, major, and grade--as learner’s characteristics, only gender interacted with learning motivation and affected their grades in English.