Orientations and Motivation in the Acquisition of English as a Second Language Among High School Students in Quebec City

We investigated the emergence of orientations and their relation to motivation in a predominantly monolingual context. In this context (Quebec City), a previous study (Kruidenier they also demonstrated that orientations were predictors of their motivation. However, the absence of an integrative orientation here does not justify its exclusion in the assessment of motivation, because it could emerge in other contexts.