Very lively! I have been a FL student of English all my life to the point of been satisfied with my FL. But, hey, I had to live in English speaking countries and that gives me a depper understanding of the communicative competences. Thank you and you are a great communicator.
+natura092 the Instrumental Function serves to manipulate the environment, to cause certain events to happen; Language Learners use this function in order to try and satisfy some need that they have. Often times it is described with the phrase, " I want" in other words, students use language as a tool to get things, information, or knowledge.
