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Department of Educational Sciences and Psychology
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Svenja Wehrhöfer

Main research topics

  • Language promotion in primary education
  • Determinants of early language skills

Office hours

by appointment

Academic background

  • Since 11/2022: PhD student at the IFS
  • 05/2021 - 10/2022: Teacher training at the GGS Krefelder Straße in Duisburg
  • 2021: M.Ed. Teaching degree for elementary schools, basic linguistic education, basic mathematical education, English, educational science, University of Duisburg-Essen
  • 2019: B.A. Teaching degree for elementary schools, basic linguistic education, basic mathematical education, English, educational science, University of Duisburg-Essen
  • 2018: Erasmus semester, University of Chichester

Professional background

  • Currently working in project Shaping linguistic education together with elementary schools, families, and educational professionals: What works?
  • Since 11/2022: research assistant in team Lauermann and McElvany at the IFS

Vita

Further Information

Current Projects:

  • Shaping linguistic education together with elementary schools, families, and educational professionals: What works? (SPEAK), project duration: 01.10.2022 – 30.09.2026

  • Dargiewicz, L.*, Wehrhöfer, S.*, Ohle-Peters, A., Lauermann, F. & McElvany, N. (2015). Promoting vocabulary and grammar in German first-grade classrooms: Design and structure of a digital language intervention. In N. McElvany, S. König, R. Schaufelberger, M. Becker, H. Gaspard, B. Heppt & A. Naumann (Eds.), IFS-Jahrbuch der Schulentwicklung: Bd. 24. Bildungsprozesse und Kompetenzentwicklungen im Kontext sprachlicher und sozialer Heterogenität (pp. 235–256). Juventa.

*Shared first authorship

  • Dargiewicz, L.*, Wehrhöfer, S.*, Ohle-Peters, A. & McElvany, N. (2025, July 03– 04). Frühe digital gestützte Förderung von Wortschatz- und Grammatikkompetenzen [Early digitally supported promotion of vocabulary and grammar skills] [Poster presentation]. 10. Dortmunder Symposium der Empirischen Bildungsforschung, Dortmund, Germany.
  • Dargiewicz, L.*, Wehrhöfer, S.* & Ohle-Peters, A. (2025, January 27-29). Gestaltung und Wirksamkeit früher Sprachförderinterventionen [Design and effectiveness of early language interventions] [Symposium]. 12. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für empirische Bildungsforschung (GEBF), Mannheim, Germany.
  • Wehrhöfer, S., Dargiewicz, L., Ohle-Peters, A., Lauermann, F. & McElvany, N. (2025, January 27-29). Zielgruppen, Merkmale und Effektivität früher Grammatikinterventionen: Ergebnisse eines systematischen Reviews und einer Meta-Analyse [Target groups, characteristics, and effectiveness of early grammar interventions: Results from a systematic literature review and meta-analysis] [Paper presentation]. 12. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für empirische Bildungsforschung (GEBF), Mannheim, Germany.
  • Dargiewicz, L.*, Wehrhöfer, S.*, Ohle-Peters, A. & McElvany, N. (2023, September 13-15). Studie zur Wirksamkeitsuntersuchung einer digital gestützten Sprachförderung zu Beginn der Grundschule [Study to investigate the effectiveness of a digitally supported language intervention at the beginning of elementary school] [Poster presentation]. Tagung der Arbeitsgruppe für Empirische Bildungsforschung (AEPF), Potsdam, Germany.

*Shared first authorship