The experience of linguistic diversity: Students of the University of Erfurt in Paris

Together with students from the Universities of Paris and Valencia, they spent a linguistically and culturally intensive week with the overall goal of planning and implementing two foreign language lessons in a French elementary school class. These were preceded on the one hand by observation and on the other hand by several content-related training units, for example on the use of language awareness-promoting activities, music and storytelling to support language learning. The additional insight into the French school system also encouraged comparison and discussion.

Béatrice Giribone-Fritz, lecturer for French at the Language Centre of the University of Erfurt and one of the leaders of the course, is satisfied: "Overall, the exchange offered the students not only the opportunity to expand their subject didactic, subject-specific and linguistic knowledge, but also to make new contacts and strengthen intercultural skills."