The study reported in this paper investigates the nature of the stresses on immigrant schoolchildren, newly arrived in Australia, and the degree and type of maladjustments which become evident. The author examines, then, the adjustment path (improving, deteriorating, or curved) in an effort to determine whether the ease of adjustment for the three national groups under study is a function of their relative facility with the English language.
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