As part of the PRONET sub-project "Multilingualism-related teacher action in bilingual subject teaching - a project to professionalize prospective and active teachers" in foreign language teaching and learning research & Intercultural Communication and history didactics, Prof. Dr. Claudia Finkbeiner, together with research assistant Regina Kaminski and Prof. Dr. Christine Pflüger, held two interdisciplinary seminars on bilingual teaching and learning in the summer semester of 2019. In these courses, the students dealt with narrated life stories ("Life Stories in the Present and Past: A Multilingual Approach to Life Stories") and written testimonies ("Französische und deutsche Tagebücher aus der Zeit des zweiten Weltkriegs als Quellen im bilingualen Geschichtsunterricht / Journaux intimes et témoignages comme sources historiques dans l'enseignement bilingue").

On June 19, 2019, a joint student workshop took place as the highlight of the two parallel events. In this workshop, the students worked together in groups consisting of seminar participants from both courses. After a brief introduction of the seminars by the lecturers, the students were given the opportunity to report to each other on the content and processes of the respective events in a subsequent exchange phase. They then received three theses on multilingual teaching, which they examined and discussed in their groups. They collected their findings as mind maps under the heading "I - in historical perspective" and then presented them to their fellow students in the form of a poster tour.

The students who took part in this workshop found it very enriching to exchange views on the similarities and differences in dealing with narrated life stories and written testimonies in the form of a free discussion.  Thanks to the participation of fellow students from the English and History departments, the interdisciplinary student workshop led to a lively and varied exchange during the group work and the subsequent poster tour. There were many links to other university events and the students' life experiences. In the discussion at the end of the workshop, they also pointed out that students from both seminars had the opportunity to broaden their horizons and experience other perspectives during the workshop.