AS-level English Language tutors
2 of 2 UK tutors teaching English Language at AS-level.
English Language at GCSE focuses on reading unseen fiction and non-fiction, and on writing for purpose and audience — descriptive, narrative, persuasive, transactional. A-level English Language is a different subject altogether: linguistics, child language acquisition, language change, discourse analysis. Tutoring helps most with the writing papers (where structure and tonal control are taught skills, not innate) and with the analytical frameworks at A-level, which students often try to bluff. Boards diverge meaningfully — AQA, Edexcel, OCR and Eduqas at GCSE, AQA and Cambridge at A-level. For A-level, prefer tutors with a linguistics background.
AS-levels are the first-year sixth-form qualification (Year 12, age 16-17), taken as standalone qualifications worth half an A-level in subjects where students don't continue to A2. Since the 2015-2017 reforms decoupled AS from A-level in England, AS marks no longer count toward the A-level grade — students sit fresh A-level exams at the end of Year 13. Wales and Northern Ireland retained the older modular structure. Tutoring at AS focuses on consolidation through Year 12 to set up A-level success; in England, the AS exam itself is now optional and increasingly skipped. Confirm the actual route the student is on.
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Dr Natalie
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20 yrs OnlinePGCE-qualified and experienced English Language, Literature and Creative Writing tutor | examiner | published poet | SEN trained.
- English
- English Literature
- Creative Writing
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Helen
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Hillingdon 30 yrs Online · In personDyslexia / SEN Specialist & Qualified Teacher. 30+ years in teaching, and as Advisory Practitioner for the Society of Education & Training
- English Language
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