Raphaela Porsch
List of John Benjamins publications in which Raphaela Porsch is involved.
2025 Chapter 13. Starting early or late? Parental perspectives on the onset of English language education at primary school in Germany Early Language Education in Instructed Contexts: Current issues and empirical insights into teaching and learning languages in primary school, Frisch, Stefanie and Karen Glaser (eds.), pp. 286–305 | Chapter
This study investigates parents’ perspectives on the preferred onset of English education in Germany and potential explanatory factors drawing on a cross-sectional survey of 2,645 parents from the EUBE project (
Englischunterrichtsbeginn aus Elternsicht / Parental perspectives on the… read more
2023 Effects of an early start in learning English as a foreign language on reading and listening comprehension in Year 9 Language Teaching for Young Learners 5:2, pp. 122–148 | Article
For years now, all over Europe a debate has been ongoing concerning the effectiveness of an early start in learning a foreign language. This paper presents findings from a representative large-scale assessment study from Germany and seeks to examine the relationship between receptive skills in… read more
2020 A critical analysis of the German public debate about an early start in primary foreign language education National foreign language policies for primary schools: Global perspectives, Enever, Janet (ed.), pp. 192–212 | Article
‘The early start is (not) effective’ is one of the arguments often used in the political debate about early start policies in foreign language (FL) education in Europe and beyond. This paper sets out to explore the central arguments repeatedly used in the political discourse and media coverage… read more
2020 An early start in primary EFL education and the role of teacher qualification and teaching quality Language Teaching for Young Learners 2:1, pp. 28–51 | Article
This study investigates the receptive L2 proficiency of early and late starters in primary EFL education in the German context. Thus, the L2 reading and listening proficiency of primary EFL learners was assessed at the end of primary schooling in year 4 in two German federal states with… read more
2019 The impact of teaching quality and learning time on primary EFL learners’receptive proficiency: Preliminary findings from the TEPS study Policy and practice in early language learning, Enever, Janet and Patricia Driscoll (eds.), pp. 160–177 | Article
This contribution presents the preliminary findings from the TEPS study (Teaching English in Primary Schools). The study is situated in Germany where primary foreign language (FL) education has been compulsory since 2004, with pupils beginning FL education – mostly English as a FL (EFL) – in… read more