In this chapter it was mentioned that "teachers should stay extra aware of the emotional fatigue that language minority adolescents experience every day." (p. 154) The strain of sitting through a class where they don't understand everything they hear is considerable.
This is so true. My daughter couldn't hear the first year of school and the strain of trying to understand what was going on around her was so much that I had to keep her out of school a lot just so she could catch up with herself. It would be the same with students who are still learning English. The uncertainty that adolescents already feel is only multiplied when this stress is included.
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