Motivation is commonly thought of as an inner drive, an impulse of a desire that moves a person to a particular action. Integrative motivation is when someone learns a language because they desire to learn more about its culture, its people and language, i.e. they wish to integrate with the target language culture and become part of that culture. Instrumental motivation is learning a second language in order to achieve some other instrumental goal: furthering a career, reading technical materials, translating, passing an exam, etc.