Dr. Christine Fredriksson

Biography

Christine Fredriksson is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Gothenburg, specializing in German linguistics. She began her career as a high school teacher and later pursued doctoral studies at Uppsala University, culminating in a PhD in 2006. Her dissertation focused on the acquisition phases and developmental sequences of German verb morphology among young learners in Sweden. Since 2015, she has been teaching at the University of Gothenburg, where she instructs courses at both basic and advanced levels, supervises undergraduate and master's theses, and assists with doctoral supervision. Fredriksson's research broadly concentrates on language learning and teaching, with a particular focus on the cognitive aspects of bilingualism and multilingualism. She explores how learners process linguistic information and the relationship between input, interaction, and the development of grammatical structures. Recently, her work has involved studying digital media's role in language learning, including analyzing interaction patterns in text-based student chats. Additionally, she is investigating the use of ChatGPT-generated model texts to enhance linguistic awareness and syntactic complexity in student writing. Fredriksson actively participates in various projects, including an Erasmus+ initiative aimed at supporting language education in diverse classrooms.

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