The Properties Defining Teaching Materials for English Language Courses for IT Students in Serbia

The results presented in this paper are a part of amuch more complex mix-method research on the needs of ITstudents in ELT. The paper reports on the properties definingthe teaching materials suitable for IT students in ELT in tertiaryeducation. Since English language is an essential tool for ITstudents to gain professional knowledge and to grow intocompetent individuals in their field, a rather different approachshould be utilised in order to fully assess and question their needsin ELT. The paper discusses on the properties of teachingmaterials for IT students within the framework of Englishlanguage courses for IT students that has been defined by theresearch. The authors want to define teaching materials suitablefor IT students for mainly two reasons: to help the ones withinsufficient language knowledge to reach the satisfying one and toequip the IT students for the target situations in Englishlanguage that they may find themselves in during studies andupon finding a job. The results presented in this paper can bevaluable for all ESP teachers, especially the ones teaching to thestudents at technical faculties.