Conclusion
This study was conducted to investigate the types of motivation, orientation and the
attitudes of Iranian undergraduate students towards learning English and Englishspeaking
people. The findings of the study revealed that the students of English
translation at IAUKB were both intrinsically and extrinsically motivated. They were also
both instrumentally and integratively oriented. This provided sufficient answers to the
research questions and could contradict the idea that ESL learners are instrumentally
oriented (König, 2006; Hamp-Lyons, 1983, Al-Tamimi & Munir, 2009). The findings
were also in line with those of other studies conducted in Iran such as Moiinvazirii (2008)
and in partial agreement with Vaezi (2008).