Why personal tuition?

 

Why personal tuition?

Most people know, from their own intuition, that a personal lesson with a teacher who designs a plan adapted to the pupil is a lot better, more productive than any other multi-student lesson which may be given in an academy.

The average advancement of a pupil, compared to an other who does not have private tuition is about 4 times faster.

All students experience doubts, confusion, immediate questions, throughout the learning process. Being able to resolve these doubts and questions in real time, as long as they are suggested during explanations, without having to wait, allows the student to be able to consolidate what they have heard almost as quickly as they learn the information.

Therefore, we have a student who advances and retains what they have learnt with much more ease than any other student whose academic advancement sails through a see of doubts and questions unanswered.

It is this factor, the strong solidification of what is learnt, which presents the main advantage which can be enjoyed when taking courses on a one-to-one or two-to-one basis.

It is no coincidence that more than 85% of our students have received lessons in a language academy at some point in their lives. Dissatisfied students, and so they tell us, that would like to try out courses that allow them to escape the rigidity of academy programmes whose method has not worked for them; because of their slow advance, because of the little communication with the teacher, their timidity when they needed to express their doubts, and even because of the little commitment displayed by the teacher to their group of students.

The main problem found by a teaching profession when faced with a multi-student class is having to find a balance to be able to satisfy the most students possible within the class. For this, the centres choose a standard manual which all of the students have to follow and objectives marked out do not necessarily correspond to the needs of all the students. A rigid system whereby the pupil has to adapt to the teacher and halt their own interests, objectives and individual qualms in such a way that they eventually lose motivation.

The most recent techniques and theories in language learning suggest the opposite; it should be the teacher who moulds themselves to the pupil if what they want is success in the learning of the language.

It is because of this that the academic centres bombard the students with feedbacks continually in a vain attempt to get to know the students and try and homogenise their educational programme. An attempt to approach the theoretical, impossible ideal, in multi-student classes.

Personal tuition is a system which covers these essential aspects: it offers a solid learning process which does undoubtedly advances not just rapidly, but centring the learning process entirely in the objectives, needs and preference of the student, an indispensable requisite if you want to have true success when attempting to learn a new language.