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Svanes, Bjorg – Language Learning, 1987
European and American students at the University of Bergen, Norway, were found to be more integratively motivated to learn Norwegian than Middle Eastern, African, and Asian students, who were found to be more instrumentally motivated. A weak positive correlation between integrative motivation and language proficiency and a negative correlation…
Descriptors: Arabs, College Students, Correlation, Cultural Differences