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This study aims to explore the effects of a class designed to publish an English newsletter by university students in an extracurricular setting. The research was conducted at a university over 11 weeks with 26 university students. The students participated from the pre-production step, including deciding the news topics to the post-production stage, including editing the newsletter. The process-based approach was based on teaching how to write news articles and learning journalistic skills was also focused on during the class as a means of developing communication methods. Surveys of students were conducted prior to and after the project. The participants' English competence was measured and they were into two groups: lower and intermediate levels. The results show that there was a significant improvement in both groups in terms of the learners' English competence. The survey results show that the class for publishing an English newsletter helped students gain interest and motivation in learning English and was an effective way to supplement English classes. The study suggests that there is a need for effective extracurricular activities such as publishing English newsletters, in order to help students improve their English competence as well as increasing their interest in learning English.