
Krister Schönström Docent
Contact
Name and title: Krister SchönströmDocent
ORCID0000-0002-8579-0771 Länk till annan webbplats.
Workplace: Department of Linguistics Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Room C 342Universitetsvägen 10 C, plan 2-3
Postal address Institutionen för lingvistik106 91 Stockholm
About me
I am an associate professor (reader) at the Department and subject leader for Sign language section.
I teach in the course Swedish Sign Language from a contrastive perspective on the Bachelor's Program in Sign Language and Interpreting. I also teach in various courses related to Swedish Sign Language and sign language linguistics. Additionally, I supervise students at both undergraduate and advanced levels, as well as doctoral candidates.
My research focuses on multilingualism in deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals, with particular emphasis on language acquisition and use. I am especially interested in bimodal bilingualism involving both sign and spoken (written) languages, and in second-language (L2) acquisition of sign languages. I have authored several articles on L2 learning of sign language and led the RJ-funded project “From Speech to Sign: Learning Swedish Sign Language (STS) as a Second Language” (2017–2019), where I built a learner corpus of STS as an L2. I have also studied deaf migrants learning STS within a VR-funded project on the multilingual situation of deaf refugees.
As part of my work, I have developed several STS tests and assessments used to measure sign language proficiency across different user groups. I currently lead the Skolfi-funded project “Promoting the Reading of Deaf Students in Sign Language-Based Classrooms,” which investigates the role of sign language and fingerspelling in reading acquisition for deaf students. I am also involved in an RJ-funded study on the relationship between sign language abilities and aging.
I am a member of the Swe-CLARIN sign language team, contributing to the development of corpus-based research infrastructure for sign language data.


