The Effect of Citizen Journalism on Writing Skill and Motivation on Advanced EFL Students of Bandarabbass Azad University

This study tries to investigate the effect of citizen journalism on writing skills on 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 gave them a motivation questionnaire for both groups.. Then he taught the experimental group the techniques of journal writing during the 7 weeks. After this time, he gave them a motivation questionnaire for both groups. He used SPSS (22) to analyze the data. The results show that the students could increase their motivation to do writing tasks.

Keywords:

citizen journalism , writing skills , motivation