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While ELL students are working to learn the ins and outs of a new language,
testing throws in an additional hurdle with its own linguistic obstacles. The composition
of questions and passages for standardized testing does not fall into the realm of
conversational English. For any student, the large pool of vocabulary used during testing
can be daunting, but to students that are newly acquiring all facets of vocabulary, it can
be overwhelming.