Five Nations provide language training to UNTL teachers and lecturers

Five Nations provide language training to UNTL teachers and lecturers:
Five nations currently support the National University of Timor Lorosa’e UNTL with languages – Portuguese and English – teaching at the Faculty of Education, Department of English and Portuguese.
Lecturers from five nations, Brazil, Portugal, New Zealand, Australia and the United States of America, provide Portuguese and English language training to lecturers and students at the university to improve their language ability.

“We now have an English Language Training Centre (ELC), supported by Australia. Currently we are in the process to try and make this language centre the best model in Timor-Leste,” said UNTL Administrator Mateus Fernandes (24/05), at the Liceu, UNTL, in Dili.
According to him, even though Tetum and Portuguese are the official languages of the country, English is equally important because it is an International language.