The focus of the programmes is to enable learners acquire the four language  skills namely listening, speaking, reading and writing for their present and future academic and professional pursuits and prepare them to function effectively in actual professional, social, and day-to-day situations.

The function of the Institute was to instruct students and carry out research on issues and problems of development/underdevelopment. The Institute had also the mandate to address the three major development problems-poverty, ignorance and diseases, which were named by the Tanzanian government as closely related evils of development.

For more detail and updated information please visit, Department of Languages Studies website