Hedge (2000) conducted a study that investigated the motivation of 20 Japanese students who were studying English. The findings indicated that the most common reasons for studying English as a second language were for communication with people overseas, finding employment in a high profile career, processing international information, and understanding other cultures. These findings were related with the work of Gardner and Lambert (1972) which suggested that a person’s need for studying a second language is for the ability to socialize with the learning language community or integrative motivation and the ability to gain knowledge applied from that learning language or instrumental motivation.