The perception of the “English element” in Croatian ICT magazines with undergraduate and graduate computer science students Daniela Matić University of Split (Croatia)
[email protected] Abstract This paper focuses on the results of a questionnaire distributed to a group of undergraduate computer science students at a Croatian university who had English in computer science 1 and 2 as ESP mandatory courses and then to a group of graduate computer science students who used to have these English courses. The central part of the questionnaire focused on the “English element” - language borrowings at various levels of orthographical, phonological and morphological adaptation to Croatian and unadapted expressions collected from Croatian information and communications technology (ICT) magazines. The main aim was to establish whether the students from both age groups found the “English element” acceptable in the standard Croatian language of journalistic register and to what extent. The results showed that the “English element” was perceived as predominantly acceptable, and the more adapted the terms were to Croatian, the less acceptable they were, regardless of the students’ age and personal and professional development. Keywords: language contacts, ESP, acceptability, English element, Croatian ICT students. Resumen La percepción del “elemento inglés” en las revistas croatas de TIC en los estudiantes de grados y posgrados de informática Este artículo se centra en los resultados de un cuestionario distribuido a un grupo de estudiantes de informática en una universidad croata que cursaron los Ibérica 35 (2018) : 201-226 201 ISSN: 1139-7241 / e-ISSN: 2340-2784 Daniela Matić cursos Inglés para Informática 1 y 2 como cursos obligatorios de inglés específico y a un grupo de estudiantes de posgrado que cursaron estos cursos de inglés.