THE IMPORTANCE OF CERTAIN VARIABLES FOR APPLYING FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENT MOBILITY PROGRAMS – STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS
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The paper aims to identify the extent to which certain linguistic, educational and communicative variables are important for students’ decision to apply for international student mobility programs. For this purpose, a structured questionnaire was designed and administered to senior year students from ten faculties of the University of Novi Sad (N=727) participating in ISM programs during the winter semester of 2024/25 academic year. The analysis of the collected data included descriptive statistics, t-test, Mann-Whitney-U test and Pearson correlation coefficient. The obtained results suggest that the highest priority was given to English language proficiency and the lowest to subjectspecific knowledge. Significant differences were detected between male and female students’ responses, with females attaching more importance to four of the six variables which were examined. Self-assessed English proficiency stood in positive correlation with two of the surveyed variables.
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