The Impact of Text Message Slang (Tms) or Chartroom Slang on Students Academic Performance

The research is on the impact of text slang or chartroom slang on students’ academic performance. It is an unstructured language that violates the standard rules of the English language. So the research is necessitated by the fact that most students in recent times have resorted to the use of text message slang or chartroom slang in their class work as well as in their examinations. This is not a good phenomenon as they eventually are the same people that will end up teaching the next generation of Nigerians. If the use of text message slang is not currently checked, it will completely erode proper use of the English language. The research therefore seeks the effects of such improper language can have on students academic performance. Descriptive research methodology was adopted and in order to elicit information from the respondents, questionnaire was constructed and distributed on hand-to-hand basis to the students immediately after their classes. This was done to ensure effective retrieval of the instrument. A total of three hundred and thirty (330) questionnaires were administered and three hundred and twenty four (324) were found usable as only this number was duly filled and returned.