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a reward or a punishment for his results. Identified regulation, on the other hand is as well selfdetermined.The student chooses to engage in L2 learning because of the recognition he mightget for it. Integrated regulation happens when identified regulations are completely assimilatedto the self, or as Ryand and Deci (2000) put it, these regulations have been evaluated and broughtinto congruence with one’s other values and needs. People who consider themselves ‘universalpeople’ (Dörnyei, 2003), see L2 as an inherent part of their self-concept. These people aremotivated because they are interested in interacting with the L2 community or because, at somelevel, they feel identified with them. The playwright, novelist and poet Samuel Beckett comes tomind, he often wrote in French because he said that he had more linguistic possibilities in thatlanguage than in his native tongue, English.Instrumental MotivationGardner and Lambert (as cited in Larsen-Freeman, 1991) introduced the concept of instrumentalmotivation, in which the learner is motivated to learn an L2 for utilitarian purposes, such asfurthering a career, improving social status or meeting an educational requirement (p. 173). Inthose respects in place settings in which is there a necessity to study a language, instrumentalmotivation could be more effective, because it occurs when a person is identified by their owndesire to obtain something useful.According to Gardner and Lambert (as cited in Larsen-Freeman, 1991), an instrumentallyoriented learner can be as intensively motivated as an integrative oriented one; however, theyhypothesized that the latter orientation would be better in the long run for sustaining the drivenecessary to master the L2 (p.174). In this term, if students have a desire in the future to bemasters in a language, they will be able to get it, because the purpose of instrumental motivationof language acquisition is practical. Clearly, the usual outcome about instrumental motivation is208Memorias en extenso. Congreso Internacional de Idiomas 2012.