Houston ESL Tutor for Multilingual Learners
Your kid speaks English fine at home and with friends. School is a different story.
The grades slip. They stop raising their hand. They come home and won't say much about their day, and lately they avoid using English at all. Maybe they're not keeping pace, not asking for help when they need it, and you can see their confidence taking the hit.
That's the gap I work in.
A lot of my students speak English comfortably in conversation and still hit a wall with academic English: the vocabulary, the sentence structures, the writing conventions school expects but rarely teaches directly.
The gap shows up as a lag in reading and writing even when speaking is strong. Students start translating in their head before every assignment. They stop volunteering answers and stop asking questions, and over time that quiet erodes their confidence to use English at all.
The ability is there.
The targeted support usually isn't.
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Multilingual or ESL students at the intermediate level or above
Speaks English but struggles with academic reading, writing, or speaking up in class
Recently arrived to the U.S. or U.S.-born bilingual. Both are welcome
Bright and capable, but not fully reflected by their performance in school
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Absolute beginners with little or no English. I don't normally start there, but I'm not opposed. Reach out and we'll talk it through
Students whose main difficulty comes from a diagnosed learning disability that needs specialized intervention. That may call for a different specialist.
If a student needs English support and also has ADHD or learns differently, that's covered on my [Learning Differences page]
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How I Work With Multilingual Students
Every lesson pushes the student to read, write, listen, and speak. Not one skill in isolation, all four, because that's how language actually gets used.
We read real texts and talk through them. We write about them and clean up the structure. I listen to how a student speaks and respond to it directly, the way no worksheet can. The point isn't to drill English. It's to get a student trusting their own voice in it, spoken and written.
I work with students at the intermediate level and up, where the foundation is already there and the goal is precision, fluency, and the confidence to use both.
Remote and In-Person Tutoring
I work with students remotely across the U.S. and in person in the Houston area, depending on scheduling and location. Remote works well for most families because it's consistent, flexible, and easy to fit into a busy week.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Often, yes. Speaking English and succeeding in academic English are two different things, especially if your child speaks English as a second language.
A student can be fluent in conversation and still struggle with the vocabulary, sentence structures, and writing conventions school expects. That gap is exactly what I work on. -
I work with multilingual and ESL students at the intermediate proficiency level and up grades 6 through 12.
The focus is precision, fluency, and the confidence to use English in class, not starting from the alphabet.If you are looking for adult ESL classes, I can help! Click here for more information.
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Both. I work with students remotely across the U.S. and in person in the Houston area, depending on scheduling and location.
Remote sessions are consistent, flexible, and easy to fit into a busy week.
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Yes. Most of my students are at the intermediate level or above, but reach out and we'll talk through whether I'm the right fit for where your student is right now.
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Every lesson pushes the student to read, write, listen, and speak, because that's how language actually gets used.
We read real texts, write about them, and work on speaking directly. Confidence building is worked into my teaching approach. -
That's common and welcome. I bring executive-function support into sessions alongside the English work.
Many of my students have ADHD, mild dyslexia, or other processing issues and learning difficulties.If your child needs a clinical intervention for something like dyslexia, a specialist may be the better fit, and I'll tell you so.
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Pricing is on my pricing page. The best first step is a free consultation. Tell me a little about your student and what you're seeing, and we'll go from there.