Participants’ inclination towards integrative motivation is a positive finding since previous research has related integrative motivation in teachers with valuable teaching skills and more supportive learning environments (Lam, Chem and Ma, 2009). Interestingly, however, results seem to indicate that the ‘integrativeness’ that primarily drives participants is not quite so much their appreciation of a specific ‘valued community’ but rather their wish to belong in, and fluently communicate with, a broader international community, as hypothesised in Dornyei’s ‘L2 motivational self- system’ theory