学习动因成年人活动的个人动因和社会动因是互相联系的。因此,在不同社会制度的国家里,不同阶层的人们学习外语的动机是不一样的,例如,在英国伦敦的一所语言学习中心里,根据六十年代的资料,学习外语的工人占总数的6％,其余的是行政领导人员22％,中层行政人员44％,神职人员25％,店主或店员2％。根据联邦德国某些社会学家的调 Learning motivation Adult motivation and social motivation of personal activities are interrelated. Therefore, in different social systems, people of different social groups have different motivations for learning foreign languages. For example, in a language learning center in London, England, according to the data from the 1960s, the total number of workers who learned foreign languages 6%; the rest are 22% of executive leaders, 44% of middle-level executives, 25% of clergy and 2% of shop owners or clerks. According to the tune of some German sociologists in Germany