How to Improve Your Spoken English literature: instrumental and integrative motivation. Instrumental motivation is one in which the learner desires to use the language as a tool to achieve some desirable ends. In contrast, an integrative motivation is one in which \learners may choose to learn a particular L2 because they are interested in the people and culture represented by the target-language group\(Ellis, 1997, p75). In various contexts, both motivations have proved important. Of course, students can have both types of motivation at the same time
