EAL is not mainstream English with easier marking. It is a different study design with its own listening task, its own note-taking demands and its own assessor expectations — and it is badly served by generic English tutoring. We teach it as its own subject.
Most EAL students lose marks in predictable places: the listening component, precision of expression under time pressure, and writing about how language works in a text when English is not the language they think in. Those are trainable, and they are what we drill.
Students in our EAL groups are held to the same standard of argument as any other student — the support is in how the teaching is delivered, not in lowering the bar. Small groups matter even more here, because students need to speak, be corrected kindly, and hear the language used well by people their own age.
If English is not the language spoken at home, a lot of the usual support a parent gives — reading a draft, checking an interpretation — is genuinely hard to provide. That is precisely the gap we fill: marked work every week, notes the student can revisit, and a tutor available in chat between classes.
Yes. EAL has its own study design and its own listening task, so it is taught with EAL requirements front and centre.
Yes — note-taking method, question types and timed practice are part of the course.
Not at all. Groups are small and deliberately supportive; speaking builds up over the term rather than being demanded on day one.
Groups are capped, so places for Term 4 genuinely run out. Tell us about the student and we'll call within 24 hours.
Every set text we teach has an in-house study guide. Read the themes, essay approach and the first few pages free.