Tetun DIT

Vacancy for English lecturers

The recently established ‘English Teaching and Translation’ department is seeking two full-time lecturers to join its existing team, with more to be employed in February 2025. The degree focuses on English language proficiency, English teaching skills, and English/Tetun translation. Lecturers must have a relevant master's level qualification and teaching experience. For more information, click here.

DIT Centre for Language Studies' mission

DIT language staff 2024

Teach, research and provide training in the languages needed for higher education in Timor-Leste.
Enable people from diverse cultures to be able to listen to and understand each other.
Teach Tetun at all levels to the international community.
Seek to help to develop Tetun, especially as a language of education and work
Study and help develop the national languages.

Learn Tetun!

Learn Tetun language and Timorese culture in-country through intensive courses at DIT, as well as through online and in-person lessons on campus or in your office. We offer courses all year round, teaching Tetun at all levels from absolute beginners to advanced. Join us for one week or more, as your schedule permits, or take lesons in person or online at a time and place that suit you. For more information, click here.

New Testament translation in everyday Tetun

Testamentu Foun ba Ema Hotu was launched as an app in October 2021,
and is available as an app from Google Playstore.
It can also be downloaded as EPUB, PDF or HTML from here.

For more information look up "Biblia ba Ema Hotu" on Facebook.

Resources

Our publications include Tetun language learning materials, manuals to teach Tetun writing and academic skills to university students, and dictionaries and technical glossaries. You can also download many of our articles and conference presentations, mainly on Tetun, but also on other languages in Timor, on language teaching, and on other aspects of Timor. For details, click here.