Layer IV (Motivational Propensities) involves three variables: interpersonal motivation, intergroup motivation, and L2 confidence.
Interpersonal motivation, in general, involves two purposes: control and affiliation. control is a motivational orientation that instigates communication behavior that aims at limiting the cognitive, affective, and behavioral freedom of the communicators and often emerges from the more powerful party. For example, doctors employ communication as a medium of controlling their patients’ behaviors. Affiliation often originates in an interest in formulating a relationship with the interlocutor (MacIntyre et al. 1998, p. 550).
Interpersonal motivation, in general, involves two purposes: control and affiliation. control is a motivational orientation that instigates communication behavior that aims at limiting the cognitive, affective, and behavioral freedom of the communicators and often emerges from the more powerful party. For example, doctors employ communication as a medium of controlling their patients’ behaviors. Affiliation often originates in an interest in formulating a relationship with the interlocutor (MacIntyre et al. 1998, p. 550).