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Frank Monaghan

Senior Lecturer

The Open University Faculty of Education and Language Studies Centre for Language and Communication

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I joined the OU as Staff Tutor in Education in the London region in May 2003 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2006. I currently chair E844 Language and Literacy in a Changing World and am a member of the E301 The Art of English module team.

I am a member of the Centre for Language And Communication (CLAC) and have been involved in the Thinking Together research project, investigating the use of ICT in primary mathematics classroom to promote exploratory talk. I formerly worked as an EAL and English teacher at North Westminster Community School, London.

I am an active CPD facilitator on the topics of language and mathematics, English as an additional language (EAL), and provision for gifted and talented EAL students. I am currently interested in the 'linguistic landscape' field and working on a project about creativity and identity in Liverpool Footbal Club fans' banners.

I am the Deputy Chair of NALDIC (the National Association for Language Development in the Curriculum - the UK's professional association for those working with learners of English as an additional language in our schools) and editor of its publication NALDIC Quarterly.

Teaching Interests

Applied linguistics

Research Interests

- Language and mathematics - Gifted and Talented EAL learners - EAL/Bilingual education - ICT and language development

- Linguistic Landscapes

Current Research

Creativity and identity in football fans' banners

Classroom based research on language and mathematics with a particular focus on bilingual students in secondary school.

Corpus-based approaches to developing language in the multilingual mathematics classroom.

Gifted and Talented BME/EAL learners.

Publications

Book Chapter
Monaghan, Frank (2010). Thinking aloud means talking allowed: group work in the primary school mathematics classroom. In: Thompson, Ian ed. Issues in Teaching Numeracy in Primary Schools, 2nd edition. Maidenhead: The Open University Press / McGraw Hill Education, pp. 58–71.
Monaghan, Frank (2010). Mainstream participatory approaches: from slipstream to mainstream. In: Leung, Constant and Creese, Angela eds. English as an Additional Language: Approaches to teaching linguistic minority students. London: Sage, pp. 15–32.
Monaghan, Frank (2009). Mapping the mathematical langscape. In: Barwell, Richard ed. Multilingualism in Mathematics Classrooms: Global Perspectives. Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. Clevedon: Multilingual matters, pp. 14–31.
Monaghan, Frank and Mayor, Barbara (2007). English in the curriculum. In: Mercer, Neil; Swann, Joan and Mayor, Barbara eds. Learning English. London, UK: Routledge, pp. 151–176.
Monaghan, Frank (2001). IT’s all talk? In: Goodwin, Prue ed. The articulate classroom: talking and learning in the primary school. David Fulton, pp. 77–82.
Journal Article
Monaghan, Frank (2005). 'Don't think in your head, think aloud': ICT and exploratory talk in the primary school mathematics classroom. Research in Mathematics Education, 7(1), pp. 83–100.
Monaghan, Frank (2003). Entering the list: campaigning for bilingual education on the NET. Language and Education, 17(4), pp. 281–302.
Edwards, Viv; Pemberton, Lyn; Knight, John and Monaghan, Frank (2002). Fabula: A Bilingual Multimedia Authoring Environment for Children Exploring Minority Languages. Language Learning and Technology, 6(2), pp. 56–69.
Monaghan, Frank (2000). What difference does it make? Children's views of the differences between some quadrilaterals. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 42(2), pp. 179–196.
Edwards, Viv; Monaghan, Frank and Knight, John (2000). Books, pictures and conversations: using bilingual multimedia storybooks to develop language awareness. Language Awareness, 9(3), pp. 135–146.
Edwards, Viv; Monaghan, Frank and Hartley, Tony (2000). Bilingual multimedia: some challenges for teachers. Language, Culture and Curriculum, 13(3), pp. 264–278.
Monaghan, Frank (1999). Judging a word by the company it keeps: the use of concordancing software to explore aspects of the mathematics register. Language and Education, 13(1), pp. 59–70.