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This study aims to investigate the word associations of the students who are specializing in information technology (IT) in order to know some educational implications for teaching them English. The participants were 151 IT students and 186 other major students. Our results showed that IT students produced more IT related responses to IT relevant stimulus words than those who were not specializing in IT. It was indicated that there was a possibility that the IT students lacked basic English vocabulary although their knowledge concerning IT was abundant. It was suggested that they need to learn more frequently used English words that might be semantically connected to already-acquired IT words if they are to improve their general English abilities.
