Example sentences for: monolingual

How can you use “monolingual” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A very recent development, of British origin, is the addition of names to monolingual dictionaries of English as a Second Language [ESL], such as the new encyclopedic edition of the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary (1992).

  • Those who are not familiar with this type of dictionary--that is, one that provides learners with grammatical, collocational, and idiomatic information far beyond what might be expected in an ordinary monolingual dictionary-- should familiarize themselves with the well-known precedent, the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Contemporary English , by A.S. Hornby, long a classic in the field.

  • More and more, however, the flow is not unidirectional: most English-speaking monolingual Quebecer will use metro for subway, dépanneur for convenience store , and caisse populaire instead of cooperative bank .

  • It is important to note that Paul Procter, in his Foreword, describes this dictionary as designed for the foreign learner of English in any part of the world; thus, it should not be judged on the same terms as are other monolingual dictionaries of like size, 100,000 words and phrases defined,... under 50,000 headwords.

  • And how does that stack up against research indicating that second-generation Latinos and Latinas are often monolingual English speakers?


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