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The 7th National Curriculum compelled schools to establish and enhance extra curriculum activities. To supplement the shortage of English class hours and improve students’ communicative competence, this study focused on reorganized extra curriculum activities via the project learning. The purpose of this study is two-fold. First is to explore the effectiveness of project learning in extra curriculum activities and second is to diversify the types of activities for primary English education on the basis of research findings. Thirty-one 4th graders in S elementary school in Masan participated in this study. The findings of this study were: (1) students felt a sense of fulfillment and gained confidence through project learning. (2) Project learning kept up students’ interest in learning and students learned more effectively after the project learning was implemented. (3) Students could find direction and motivation for self-learning through the planning and implementation of project learning. (4) Extra curriculum activities improved the effectiveness of learning through group-based activities.