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- Using Project Based Learning to build memorable and meaningful learning experiencesPublication . Cruz, Mariana Magalhães da Silva Torres Lampreia Pinto da; Esteves, Vanessa Cristina Ramos Sousa e ReisThis report aims to reflect on how Project- based learning PBL can be included in a Primary English Curriculum as a privileged methodology to develop not only English language skills, but also enrichen the learning process. The report presents how schools can foster students’ creativity, innovation, communication, and collaboration skills and how PBL can serve as a favored vehicle for developing all of these skills to create engaged language learners. The main focus of this action research is to analyze how classroom practices can focus on student-centered activities, integrated with real-world issues and practices. Through an ethnographical methodology of both a qualitative and quantitative nature with action research outlines, it is apparent that learning occurs through students’ inquiry, collaborative work and through strategies that are based on hands on projects, which lead to authentic meaningful lifelong learning experiences. This report seeks to demonstrate that education needs to aim to do more than merely prepare children for the marketplace by providing them with the essential competences to make them participative, flexible, and responsible future citizens.