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From https://www.edutopia.org/article/strategies-easing-transition-shock

Strategies for Easing Transition Shock
English language learners in particular may be impacted by this form of stress, but simple strategies can help—and they benefit all students.
By Louise El Yaafouri
August 31, 2018

Transition shock—an umbrella term that incorporates culture shock, chronic distress, traumatic upset, and post-traumatic stress disorder—can impact student success in a number of behavioral, emotional, and physiological ways. It can also impair students’ ability to acquire and make sense of a language, meaning that it creates unique challenges for America’s fastest-growing student population, English language learners (ELLs), especially those students who have come from areas experiencing war or large-scale resettlement.

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