Abstract

The paper presents results of the research dealing with students´preferences of electronic, or printed materials in 2019 at two intentionally selected higher education institutions in the Czech Republic: Faculty of Education (FE), University of Jan Evangelista Purkyne, Usti nad Labem, and Faculty of Informatics and Management (FIM), University of Hradec Kralove. Data were collected from 185 participants who were to fulfil the task within English for Specific Purposes – they searched for sentences containing selected grammar phenomena. Totally 8,140 sentences were collected and structured under ten types of electronic and printed sources (professional book, fiction long, fiction short, article, other source. Data were processed by Fisher’s exact test. The hypothesis expecting association between the type of institution and type of source was verified. FE students preferred printed books of long fiction (novels) but also used e-books, both of long fiction and on professional content, whereas FIM students exploited two types of sources only: e-articles and printed books relating to their profession and/or field of study.

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