monolingual

Modifies a noun

• thesaurus: Guidelines for the establishment and development of monolingual thesauri.
• dictionary: Students need a great deal of practice to find the intended meaning of words in a particular context, using monolingual dictionaries.
• corpus: Some of them are monolingual corpora - collections of text from one language.
• peer: The rates of progress for bilingual learners are generally very much higher than for their monolingual peers.
• speaker: The impression may be given that all the teachers are monolingual French speakers.
• pupil: Indeed, we should try to encourage some of our monolingual native pupils to join in the learning of a community language.

Modifying Another Word

• mainly: Those working in school based provision and providers in mainly monolingual areas find EAL a particular challenge.
• largely: If they are colleagues from the same country there is a risk that the environment will be largely monolingual and not English-speaking.
• predominantly: The demand for English language courses in Pakistan is insatiable and puts us predominantly monolingual English speakers to shame.
• notoriously: He should persuade the notoriously monolingual British to learn a language.

Used with adjective complement

• remain: What about society's children whose task ours is to ensure that they do not remain determinedly monolingual?