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Attitudes of Students from College of Applied Sciences "Lavoslav Ružička" in Vukovar Related to the Importance of Learning Business Language.

The aim of the study was to do research among students from the Commerce Study of the College of Applied Sciences "Lavoslav Ružička" in Vukovar related to the importance of learning Business English and German and compare it to the research done among students from Medical College in Zagreb. The study was carried out among business students learning (Business) English or German as their first foreign language. The research was done in the summer semester of the academic year 2021/22 and it encompassed students of all three years of study. The questionnaire itself comprised questions on students´ sex, information on their first foreign language, the frequency of their use of foreign language in everyday life, situations in which they use the same, reasons why learning a particular language is important for them and the most useful things they learned in Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) classes. Moreover, it contains questions on both self-assessment of students’ current business language knowledge and the level of satisfaction with the same, projections on the future needs of business languages when it comes to their future education and work place, situations in which they had to use business languages and their potential multilingualism. The data were compared to the ones from the research Attitudes of students from the Medical College in Zagreb on learning ESP carried out by Sanda Marjanović and Martina Klanjčić (2017). The direct comparison of the collected data revealed that the students from both colleges use foreign languages with the same frequency and that they are equally satisfied with their common knowledge of language they learn. The differences between the students from two colleges can be seen in the self-assessment of their subjective knowledge of the foreign language they learn, opinion on the need for foreign languages in their further education and future employment, their opinion on importance of learning foreign languages, reasons for importance of language learning, attitudes towards the need for additional learning of LSP and in the multilingualism of the students.

Business English and German, LSP, Medical English and German, students´ attitudes

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