Children may develop the ability to use multiple dialects as they interact at home, in the larger community, and informally with peers. Children who are more linguistically flexible and can use more than one dialect will be able lo communicate effectively in a wide variety of settings and interactions.

Rather than having a teacher provide facts and then testing students ability to recall these facts via memorization, PBL attempts to get students to apply knowledge to new situations.

A PBL project might ask students to educate their peers on the best ways to prevent the spread of viruses in school. To do this, they would need to study microbiology to understand how viruses work, research prevention tools, then use their writing and speaking skills to determine the most effective means to convince their peers to change their habits; this may come in the form of a video or poster series.

With project based learning, the content is baked inside of a long-term project, a real-world problem students need to solve in a creative and authentic way. In

Kids show what they learn as they journey through the unit, interact with its lessons, collaborate with each other, and assess themselves and each other. T

A child is considered lo be a "blank slate" (Karmiloff & Karmiloff-Smilh, 2001), and loaming occurs due to associations established between stim-uli, responses, and events that occur after tho response behavior.

Expressive language refers lo a child's production of language lo communicate. This develops orally first during social interactions and as a child's speech mechanisms mature allowing the child to gain control over producing specific speech sounds.