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Adult Migrant English Home Tutor Scheme

The Home Tutor Scheme, as part of the Adult Migrant English Program, helps eligible adult migrants and refugees who cannot attend English classes, and is an initiative of the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs.

The Scheme provides training and support for volunteer tutors who help migrants to learn English and also to learn about life in Australia.

Tutoring usually takes place in the informal atmosphere of the migrant's own home. However, volunteers may also assist in conversation practice in Adult Migrant English Program classes.

To be a home tutor you need to be able to:

• speak and write English well
• relate to people from different cultural backgrounds
• appreciate the difficulties of living in a community in which you don't speak the language
• spare a few hours a week
• you don’t need to speak another language.