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APPENDIX

Faculty of Education

Department of Art and Social Sciences

English and Literary Studies Education

Godfrey Okoye University

Ugwu-Omu Nike Enugu

July, 2018.

Dear respondent,

REQUEST TO COMPLETE QUESTIONNAIRE ITEMS

I, Omeje, Chidera Oluchi, a student of the above named institution, is conducting a research project on the topic: “Influence of social media in the performance of senior secondary school students in the English language in Nsukka Education Zone of Enugu State”, which comprises of Nsukka Local Government Area, Uzo-uwani Local Government Area, and Igbo - Etiti Local Government Area.

The investigation is to find out the influence of social media on the performance of secondary schools students in the use and writing of the English language.

Kindly supply the correct information by placing (√) in the column to fill the blank space against each statement that appeals to you. Your answers will be confidentially treated.

Thanks for your co-operation.

Yours sincerely

Omeje, Chidera Oluchi

(Researcher)

QUESTIONAIRE

Social Media and Academic Performance of Students in English Language (SMAPOSIEL)

Instruction

Please tick (√) in the appropriate box to indicate your response.

SECTION A

Sex Male [ ] Female [ ]

Age (a) below 20 [ ]
(b) 20 – 25 [ ]
(c) 30 and above [ ]
Occupation ………………………………………………………………………………………..

Name of school ……………………………………………………………………………………

Location of school ………………………………………………………………………………...

Town ………………………………………………………………………………………………

Tick (√ ) against the best alternative in each item.

SECTION B

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

Please indicate how you feel by ticking (√) on the appropriate column.

S/N	ITEMS / STATEMENT	SA	A	D	SD
1.	Addiction to online social network affects my academic work
2.	I use dictionary to learn good and new vocabularies for 3 to 4 hours.
3.	Hours I spent online cannot be compared to the number of hours I spend reading my books.
4.	I use social media to find friends online, messaging, and profile updates, fun and leisure, watching movies that will take me up to three (3) to four( 4) hours daily.

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

S/N	STATEMENT / ITEMS	SA	A	D	SD
1.	Engaging in academic forum on yahoo, research gate and academia.com, increase my grade and class performance.
2.	I use face book, Wikipedia, and other social network for finding friends, watching movies, fun and leisure and it helps me in my academic performance.
3.	I use material got online to compliment what I have been taught in the class during examinations.
4.	I will not perform well in English vocabulary if I stop online research and information.

RESAEACH QUESTION 3: Does the social media network the students are exposed to, affect their correct use of the English language?

S/N	STATEMENT /ITEMS	SA	A	D	SD
1.	I cannot boldly speak correct English in public due to continuous use of social media network sites, so I use pidgin instead.
2.	I usually have unlimited access to face book, twitter, to go, pinging and chats and this has affected my use of correct words while speaking.
3.	My use of parts of speech and tenses has been affected seriously because I make use of whatsap more than reading my books.
4.	I solely rely on the information I got on social media network sites to do my assignment without consulting other sources.

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

S/N	STATEMENT / ITEMS	SA	A	D	SD
1.	I cannot boldly read out correct English language in public due to continuous use of social media jagon.
2.	I hardly write essay or composition without committing concord error.
3.	I usually use acronyms that I learnt from the social media to write English language in the classroom thereby committing spelling errors.
4.	There is no improvement in my reading, writing and speaking of good and correct English since I became attracted to social media networking sites.