English Language tutors

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.