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Table 4 How often learners speak the language of the test at home

From: The effects of language and home factors on Lebanese students’ mathematics performance in TIMSS

	2015				2019
ATHOME	English		French		English		French
Never	11.1%		15.4%		15.7%		30.5%
Sometimes	67.8%		53%		64.9%		49.9%
Almost Always	14.1%		19%		12.4%		12.7%
Always	7%		12.9%		7%		6.9%

Note. Data from Mullis et al. (2016) and Mullis et al. (2020)

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