IB Turkish A: Language and Literature Tutoring, SL and HL
IB Turkish A is a Group 1 subject for students who read and write Turkish at literary level. The guide it follows is the same one English A follows, so the areas of exploration are the same and the only thing that changes is the language of the texts: Paper 1 sets an unseen passage in front of the student and Paper 2 asks for a sustained comparison between two works studied. Marks are lost in predictable ways — retelling the plot, naming devices without saying what they do, and treating the comparative essay as two essays written one after the other.
Short answer
IB Turkish A: Language and Literature is offered online, one-to-one.
A private lesson runs 90 minutes and starts at USD 95 per lesson; lessons are booked singly or in packages.
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Your lessons are taught by Melis Acar, who teaches IB Turkish A: Language and Literature.
- SL and HL assessment from the IB’s own subject brief
- Live online lessons of 90 minutes
- From USD 95 per lesson
How IB Turkish A: Language and Literature is assessed
External papers set and marked by the IB, and an internal assessment marked by your teacher and moderated by the IB. Standard Level and Higher Level differ in length, weighting and, at HL, in the extra paper or component. Figures are from the IB’s own subject brief, linked below.
International Baccalaureate
IB Diploma Programme · Turkish A: Language and Literature · subject brief, first assessment 2021
| Component | SL: weight and length | HL: weight and length | What it involves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paper 1: Guided analysis | 35% · 1 hour 15 min | 35% · 2 hours 15 min | Guided analysis of unseen texts: literary passages in Literature, non-literary texts in Language and Literature (one at SL, two at HL). |
| Paper 2: Comparative essay | 35% · 1 hour 45 min | 25% · 1 hour 45 min | A comparative essay on two works studied, answering one of four questions. |
| HL essay | HL only | 20% | A 1,200–1,500-word essay on one work studied, written as coursework. |
| Individual oral | 30% | 20% | A prepared oral on how two works studied approach a common global issue. |
Checked on 24 September 2026
Paper names are the IB’s own. Internal assessment time is the teaching time the IB allocates to it, not an exam.
The IB Turkish A: Language and Literature syllabus
Topic names are left in English, as they appear on the paper and in the mark scheme.
Areas of exploration
Readers, writers and texts · Time and space · Intertextuality: connecting texts
The two courses
Turkish A: Literature · Turkish A: Language and Literature
Where IB Turkish A: Language and Literature marks are usually lost
Retelling the passage instead of analysing it
Paper 1 puts an unseen text in front of the student and expects an argument about how it works. An answer that summarises what happens, character by character, earns nothing for analysis however accurate it is. The paragraphs that earn marks start from a feature of the language — register, rhythm, imagery, the shift of tense, the way a narrator refuses to say what is meant — and then say what that feature does to the reader.
Two essays stapled together
Paper 2 asks one comparative question about two works studied, and every body paragraph has to bring both works into the same sentence. A paper that analyses the first work for half its length and the second for the other half has answered two questions instead of one. The comparison is the marking criterion, so it belongs in the thesis, not only in the conclusion.
A global issue too broad to argue about
The individual oral is built on how two works approach one global issue, and the issue has to be specific enough to argue about and wide enough to reach both texts. An issue such as love gives the student nothing to say; an issue such as the effect of urbanisation on the family is arguable and reaches two Turkish works and two translated ones without strain. Ten minutes of preparation, then ten minutes of speaking, goes wrong when the issue is chosen in the last five minutes.
The IB Turkish A: Language and Literature internal assessment
The internal assessment in Turkish A is the individual oral: a prepared presentation on how two works studied approach a common global issue, followed by questions from the examiner. A tutor can drill the structure of the ten minutes, test the fit between the issue and the two texts, and question the terminology before the recording. The issue, the pairing and the argument itself stay the student's own.
A tutor can explain the criteria, question a draft and point to what is weak. The research, the writing and every decision in it stay the student’s own, as the awarding body’s rules require.
How we teach IB Turkish A: Language and Literature
A tutor teaches Turkish A by working outwards from the text. Each session opens with two passages and the question of what the language is doing in them — not what the story is — and the vocabulary of literary analysis is built up on the page, so that by Paper 1 the student has language for what they already see. Comparative essays are planned as a table before they are written: two works, one question, and the point at which each text is brought in. The areas of exploration give the reading a frame, so that a passage on time and space is analysed with the same set of questions as one on intertextuality. For the individual oral, a pool of global issues is prepared across the year and each is rehearsed against a specific pair of texts, because the ten-minute presentation only works when the issue and the pairing are already familiar.
There is no separate diagnostic, because there is no single test that stands in for two years of a school syllabus. The first lesson is the assessment: the tutor works through your recent marked work, past-paper questions from your own specification, and the units your school has already covered, and reads current level, gaps, exam technique and where school work stands. It is a normal paid lesson and it teaches as it assesses.
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