COVID-19 AND ITS IMPACT ON HIGHER EDUCATION. AN UPDATE ON ENGLISH BORROWINGS IN ROMANIAN

COVID-19 ET SON IMPACT SUR L'ENSEIGNEMENT SUPERIEUR. LE POINT SUR LES EMPRUNTS ANGLAIS EN ROUMAIN

Abstract

COVID-19 has dramatically changed education and, as a consequence, e-learning has shown significant growth, influencing its users’ vocabulary.
Moreover, the use of digital technologies in the teaching process has also had a
major contribution to the coinage and adoption of new words in other languages,
Romanian included, as English is the language of computer science and of the
Internet. Hence, state-of-the art tools for information technology, online
applications and platforms have been developed. The present paper intends to
assess the massive impact of COVID-19 on higher education in Romania in terms
of investigating the challenges and opportunities of the online system of education.
It also aims at making an inventory of the recently-adopted English borrowings,
related to online learning technologies, developed as a result of the COVID-19
pandemic.