Essay On Integrative Motivation

Nowadays English has been spoken by about 1.5 billion people all over the world (Crystal 1997:5) as a medium of communication between people of different languages, so called English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). It is believed that English is important due to its functions to facilitate communication, which lead to the acceptance that English should be taught around the world. The trends of studying English can be seen in all industrial and developing countries, especially in Asia, as English is a required subject of education in high schools and university admission examinations. It is well concurred that studying and achieving English is prerequisite for non-native English learners as English becoming international language, and it might give learners various advantageous opportunities, for example, they might be able to study abroad,

There are plentiful research that justify this effective impact of motivation. The work of Hernandez (2004) reveals that the significant predictor of the students’ participant grades in learning Spanish, as a foreign language is integrative motivation. In the works of Gardner and his associates, the socio-psychological oriented work, reveal that there is a strong correlation between integrative motivation and learning achievement (Gardner, 1985, 1988; Gardner & Lambert, 1959) and between integrative motivation and motivational behavior. A study of student’s EFL learning motivation in Taiwan vocational college by Fan shows that student’s learning motivation and English learning achievement have a strong correlation (Fan, 2012). Similarly, the work of Cheng and Cheng (2012) which is carried out to study the reflections of the role of motivation on successful English learning of Taiwan EFL learners reveals that making students interested and motivated brings successful learning