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ELL Reflective Report
I grow up as an English Language Learner (ELL) and it was difficult to know what language to speak in certain environment. I was part of ELL for largest part of my education life and even though various peers were in it as well I felt out of place and struggled more in class. I needed extra support with reading and writing because it was a new language. It was hard to manage two contrasting language and I would not know what language to use, but when I started the third grade it was all English and I still was in the ELL program. All I was learning was English in class and at home my parents were speaking English a little bit more each day, so I was speaking more English by the end of third grade. I had to pass a test to get out of it but still
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