Improve Your English Tutoring Services - Cupertino, California

Ro Ho

My daughter is an avid reader. She really enjoyed having Dr. Wilson for 3 years during high school. This is after she had tried 3 other private tutors. My daughter does not have a shortage of ideas, but organizing her ideas into a powerful essay can be a challenge. Dr. Wilson was very patient, asking clarifying questions and leading my daughter to think critically to focus on her thesis, to organize her thoughts and to produce great essays.

As parents, we love to see how well my daughter responded to Dr. Wilson’s teaching method and her artful integration of many historic events into teaching English writing. My daughter has received A’s in her honors English and AP English classes. We trust Dr. Wilson so much that we made special requests to Dr. Wilson to proofread my daughter’s college application essays as well as post-graduate application essays! Dr. Wilson is the best English tutor we’ve had and we highly recommend her.

Thomas

My child had some struggle with essay writing in English class. Through a friend's referral we signed up with IYE and retained Dr. Goodman to help with improving essay writing skill. Throughout the entire course we checked with our child a few times and were very happy with the tutoring process. Dr. Goodman is a very nice lady with a strong passion about English teaching. She has deep knowledge of modernist literature and guided my child through discussions to come up with points and structures of the essays. Dr. Goodman is very responsive in email communications. After each session she sent an email to her student and parents to summarize the class contents as well as homework before the next session. We can see the result of the tutoring at the end of the school semester.

We will definitely recommend IYE and Dr. Goodman to our friends for English tutoring.

Lifen Lee

I initially wanted both my daughter and son to take lessons at Improve Your English because my daughter’s best friend has taken the lesson with Nat Crawford for years and turns out to be quite advanced in reading and writing. However, Nat’s schedule was quite booked at that time so he was unable to take my daughter. In contrast, my son, a 5th grader, is very lucky to have Nat being his tutor since this April. My son is a talented boy who is good at STEM but is not very good at reading and writing. From the moment my son walked into Nat’s private lesson, Nat’s teaching methods won over my son. Nat helps him to improve his basic writing skills by asking him to read series of Oz books, summarize chapters and memorize vocabularies out from the books. Nat has also systematically taught vocabulary, grammar and reading. Nat has instilled positive values of reading in my son. I often heard he say after class “Nat is the best!”. I have spoken to other parents and realized that Nat is able to recognize each student’s difference and apply different approaches to work with individual student. We can’t wait to work with Nat for the next few years to help guide my son read classics literature works and build analytical ability for the essays. I highly recommend their tutoring service.

Jenny Zhang

Both my son and daughter have been taking lessons at Improve Your English for many years. Both have made great progress in reading and writing. They have received very systematic training in vocabulary, grammar, reading classics literature works, and building their writing skills. They’re very lucky to have Nat Crawford being their tutor during the recent years. My daughter enjoys reading classics. Nat guides her to explore the English literature work by Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and other modern authors, and helps her to understand and analyze the characters and plots. She really enjoys working with Nat. My son, on the other hand, is kind of boy who is not very good at reading and writing. Nat helps him to improve his basic writing skills by practicing sentence variety exercise and doing many targeted writing practice, which prove to be effective. While my two kids are quite opposite in their reading and writing habits and skills, Nat is able to recognize their difference and apply different approaches to work with them individually. Both have learned a lot and been benefited from Nat’s tutoring. I highly recommend their tutoring service.

Yoon Lee

Dr. Wilson has been tutoring my son, who is in 7th grade, for about one year. Her tutoring style works well with my son. She is patient, listens actively, and structures the lessons to focus on areas of development for my son. When my son started, his writing and reading comprehension needed improvement. Now he feels more comfortable communicating his thoughts in writing, in a structured fashion, as well as enjoys reading a lot more. He looks forward to lessons with Dr. Wilson. Thank you, Dr. Wilson, for helping my son!!

xy ding

I got Nat’s contact info less than two weeks before my daughter’s college application deadline. He set up sessions to review her essays almost right after I contacted him. Nat was very knowledgeable, professional, and meticulous. He knew exactly where the problems were and gave very effective advice on how to convey her true personality and thoughts. I felt my daughter learned more about writing from him in two weeks than from many years of public school English teaching. The parent who shared Nat’s info with me also strongly recommended him. It would be so wonderful if there were more teachers like him.

Ying Shang

My 6th grade son has been taking online lesson from Mr. David McCalmon for several months now. We are hesitant initially. First, IYE's class focuses a lot on fundamentals of English as a language, so I am not sure if my son will be able to commit himself without being bored. Secondly, I am not so comfortable with online class due to age of my son and the fact that I can't sit next to him to supervise. However online class is the only option available to us due to commute issue. We decided to give it a try anyway. So far I am very happy with the outcome: my son is glued to his lesson with Mr. McCalmon. His school teacher gives high review of his writings comparing the comment several months back. I noticed my son is confident in writing and really enjoys reading. What I like about IYE is their principal of teaching English fundamentals and how serious Nat is towards his service. I have used other reputable/popular writing tutors, all didn't work out. In one case the kid got too bored and refused to go to class any more. In another case the teach made kids hook up to the class but really didn't teach much. So I feel lucky one of school parents recommended IYE to me and it works well!

Shuyi Tang

My son likes and respects his tutor Mr. Nat Crawford very much. Unlike some other classes he attends, he treats Mr. Crawford's class very seriously, same as his high school class. Mr. Crawford must have some kind of magic. 🙂 After every class, Mr. Crawford's follow-up/homework email comes shortly with all the details, not only to the student, but cc the parent too. His class covers vocabulary, reading comprehension, and writing. So the improvement won't happen in a few weeks, but after one year or longer, I have seen a huge difference. My son has been with the service for a year and half, now with good score at school, and confidence in his literature class. Highly recommend!