Sr. Flordeliza Deza, SPC - St. Paul University Manila

Orientation
Integrative orientation or reasons for learning a second
language that emphasize the notion of identification with the
community. This is an aspect which clearly overlaps with
motivation, specifically, integrativeness.
Because most of the students were expecting to go to the US or
Europe, they did not express any general desire to identify with
Filipinos. In fact, one thought being in the Philippines was
negative because the “Filipinos speak most of the time in their
native tongue.” Another confided, “as (the) Philippines’ first
language is not English, you should not bring more students)
to learn it (English) here because they would face the same
problem… it is not a good experience just listening (to) Tagalog
instead of good English, which was my purpose (in coming).”