Knowing the language and being comfortable using it are not learned in the same room, and they are rarely taught well by the same person. So we do not ask one tutor to do both.
A certified English teacher leads the part of each cycle that builds understanding. They work through listening and reading material, show how it is put together, and introduce the vocabulary your child will need later that week.
A trained mentor runs the speaking sessions — usually a university student, close enough in age to be easy to talk to. Their job is not to correct grammar. It is to get your child talking, and to keep them talking when a word goes missing.
Splitting the work across two people only helps if both are teaching toward the same thing and marking to the same standard. Three things keep that true.
The teacher and the mentor are not running separate courses. Each cycle sets a single competency, and both sessions work toward it — your child hears the language in one and has to produce it in the other.
Mentors are shown recorded examples of what A2 and B1 speaking sound like, so "ready to move up" means the same thing across the team instead of coming down to one person's instinct.
A sample of every tutor's assessments is reviewed independently. Standards drift over a term if nobody checks, and one training session at the start is not enough to prevent it.
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