The Effect of Citizen Journalism on Writing Skill on Advanced EFL Students of Bandar Abbas Azad University

This study tries to investigate the effect of citizen journalism on the writing skills of advanced EFL students of Bandar Abbass Azad University. This study was done in a quantitative method. In this study, the researcher used advanced students from the Bandar Abbass Azad University. He chose them by random sampling. He used a test for this research. He had 35students for the control group and 31students for the experimental group. At first, he homogenized the students and then had a pre-test for both groups. Then he taught the experimental group the techniques of journal writing during the 7weeks. After this time, he had a post-test for both groups. He used SPSS (22) to analyze the data. The results of the test show that the students of the experimental group could increase their skills in writing by learning some journalism techniques.

Keywords:

citizen journalism , writing skills , learning