Influence Of Social Media In The Performance Of Secondary School Students In English Language
[A CASE STUDY OF NSUKKA EDUCATION ZONE OF ENUGU STATE]

Significance of the Study

The study will help the students and society at large to benefit from the result as it will be geared towards equalization of educational opportunities to every individual, to reshape the mentality of the students in Nsukka Education Zone towards their addiction to social media network in their academic/ educational goal, and also help to restore sanity among the students in their excessive use of social media so as to acquire the right type of education in their use of correct English grammar. This will be done by using a well articulated programme to create awareness to students so as to improve their performance in Nsukka Education Zone.

However, this study will enable government agencies to benefit from the result of the study so as to enable them to know, plan and implement educational programmes especially for youths of which the majority are students in their use of social media network.

Researchers and scholars will find it useful because they will be able to embark on more research and academic findings, and then come up with better ideas.

Institutions of learning will benefit from it as it will make them to produce academically sound and intelligible students to the society by creating constant awareness to students.

Educational administrators will benefit from this study because it will make them proud administrators when their students can comfortably compete with their counterparts allover the world in good and correct English through their close monitor.

Ministry of Education and curriculum planners will benefit from the study as this will be an eye opener to them while planning because it will enable them to know actually the needs of the students, aims and objectives a particular course of study is meant to achieve and focus on them so that it will be achieved.

Parents/guardians and teachers will also benefit from the study for it will give them directions on how to carry their students/wards along in their academic difficulties more especially in their excessive addiction to social media in the correct use of  English language.

Scope of the Study

This study is specifically designed to examine the influence of social media on the academic performance of senior secondary school students in the English language in Nsukka Education Zone of Enugu State. It discovered the extent to which students has been affected by the social media and in the solution of related contemporary problems affecting the education of students especially in their English language. To highlight the measures which will be used to address this problems of network madness of the 21st century. It also surveys the perception of the respondents on the influence of social media on the students of the zone. This study will be limited to the senior secondary school students in Nsukka Education Zone and therefore excludes other factors that do influence the performance of the students in English language in other parts of the state.

Research Questions

The following research questions guided the study:

1.How would student’s addictiveness to social media network influence their academic performance?

2. How does the use of social media influence the academic performance of the students in Nsukka Education Zone positively in their English language internal and external examinations?

3. How does the social media network  the students are exposed to, affect their correct use of English language?

4. How does the excessive use of social media network sites influence the students in their reading and writing of good English grammar?