Motivation, an influential factor for L2 Acquisition?

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Instrumental Motivation and Integrative Motivation

Current second language acquisition research discusses two types of attitudes labeled as an "integrative orientation" and an "instrumental" orientation. Two Types of Motivation:

Instrumental Motivation is characterized by the desire to obtain something practical from studying a second language. It is typical of second language acquisition where little or no social integration of the learner into a community using the target language takes place, such as in a foreign language classroom. The learner’s purpose in language acquisition is more practical, such as meeting a requirement for school or university graduation, applying for a job, reaching technical material.

Integrative Motivation is characterized by the learner’s positive attitudes towards the target language group and comes into play when one desires to become a part of a community that uses the target language in social situations. Integrative motivation has been found to sustain long-term success when learning a second language.

The distinction between integrative and instrumental motivation is that in the former, the learner wishes to learn a language in order to integrate into the culture and society of the language group, whereas in the latter learning of a language is motivated by the desire to achieve instrumental goals, such as academic achievement, and/or professional and economic advancement.

How can the less intelligent learners appeal to their inner needs and enhance motivation?

Motivation, like self-esteem, can be global, situational or task-oriented.That is,there are two cases

I don’t like learning English, but I like this attractive young teacher.(situation)

I don’t like learning English , but I like this English game.(task)

In our English teaching, we can use these two cases to stimulate the students’ passion into English  learning . .That  is  to say, the reason why people who want to pass TOEFL are instrumentally  oriented. As we all know, Students with instrumental motivation are more successful in  Second Language Learning(SLA), compared with people with integrative motivation .When a learning wishes to integrate him/her within the culture of the target language group, to

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