International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation ISSN: 2617-0299 (Online); ISSN: 2708-0099 (Print) DOI: 10.32996/ijllt Journal Homepage: www.al-kindipublisher.com/index.php/ijllt IJLLT AL-KINDI CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT Copyright: © 2022 the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Published by Al-Kindi Centre for Research and Development, London, United Kingdom. Page | 50 | RESEARCH ARTICLE Reality of the Real Lecturer, Tutor and Teacher: A Discussion Paper Dr. Salah Edin Hassan El-Obeid Mohamed 1 ✉ Dr. Nawal Salih Ahmed Balol 2 and Dr.Sabah Mohamed Abass Hamza 3 123 Department of English language, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia, Daudi Arabia Corresponding Author: Dr. Salah Edin Hassan El-Obeid Mohamed, E-mail: selobeid@kku.edu.sa | ABSTRACT The aim of this academic paper is to discuss and illustrate the significant role and duties of a lecturer, a tutor and a teacher in the process of learning and explain their utmost contribution to the promotion of the students educationally, emotionally and ethically. At the beginning of the academic paper, a brief description has been explained to distinguish between the teacher and the lecturer and between the tutor and the instructor. Then, the duties and responsibilities of a lecturer, a tutor and a teacher have been clarified. It is recommended that teachers and lecturers should be real leaders to their students and encourage them to improve their standard of education and promote their personalities by adopting better qualities and ethics in their life. Educational centers are expected to give more emphasis on the importance of training teachers, lecturers and tutors in order to help them teach and react to students positively and efficiently. | KEYWORDS Lecturer, Tutor Teacher, significant role, Educational centers training | ARTICLE INFORMATION ACCEPTED: 31 January 2023 PUBLISHED: 04 February 2023 DOI: 10.32996/ijllt.2023.6.2.7 1. Introduction As a matter of fact, the roles and duties of educators can't be denied or ignored due to their significance. In educational centers as well as in communities, it is necessary to understand and consider the great responsibilities of educators in the promotion of the quality of education and in educating the whole person to be a good citizen. In this paper, these differences and responsibilities of a lecturer, a tutor and a teacher have been illustrated in detail. 2. Differences between a lecturer, teacher and a tutor To clarify each role, it is necessary to clarify the differences begging with a tutor. A tutor is a teacher who teaches in private and who works outside of school. A tutor, formally also called an academic tutor, is a person who provides assistance or tutelage to one or more people on certain subject areas or skills according to the definition in Wikipedia. Tutors are specialists in various topics and are paid to give extra lessons to students. Tutors don’t work in schools and are not government employees. A tutor is a person who teaches, and the tutee is the person being taught. The tutor is like a private teacher, a person who teaches outside of school. A tutee is a tutor’s student; That is to say, the main difference between Tutor and Teacher is that the Tutor is an instructor who gives private lessons, and a teacher is a person who helps others to acquire knowledge, competences or values in a formal learning situation. A tutor, formally also a tutor and lecturer, both teach; they are two completely different positions. A tutor can teach anything outside of school. Tutors can have very specific skill sets that they teach to their students. Tutors are often teachers in one subject or two. They work privately for single or small groups of students.