And Chinese uses no tenses at all. It is likely that the difficulties LEP students face in taking English examinations may differ depending on the structure of their native language. For example, there is some research that shows that substituting words with Latinate roots for words with Germanic roots makes test items easier for native speakers of Spanish—hardly a surprising finding—but this would not likely be of much help for a native speaker of Korean, which shares no roots with either language. However, research investigating the effects of these differences on test performance is barely
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