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Your submission will be evaluated on the extent to which you demonstrate the depth of your subject matter knowledge of the MTEL-Flex English as a Second Language test objective you selected during registration.\nMTEL-Flex involves answering 4 prompts and writing an analysis in which you demonstrate your knowledge of the content assessed by the test objective and further elaborated by the descriptive statement(s) you have selected in relation to your stated topic.\nYour responses to the first 4 prompts should be no more than 1 single-spaced page and your written analysis should be no more than 3 single-spaced pages. This instructions page does not count toward your page limits.\nThis template contains a \u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"Prompts\" \u0014Prompt Section\u0015 and a \u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"WrittenAnalysis\" \u0014Written Analysis Section\u0015. 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