Groups of Vocabulary
a.
RECEPTIVE VOCABULARY
Receptive vocabulary
is the body of words that a person recognizes and understands well enough to
comprehend them when read or heard. Also known as the listening vocabulary, it
contains the productive or expressive vocabulary.
As James F. Shepherd
said that: Your receptive
vocabulary is the words you know when you listen or read – the words you know
when you receive thoughts from others. Your expressive vocabulary is the words
you use when you speak or write – that is, when you express your thoughts to
others.[1]
From definitions
above, it can understood that receptive vocabulary is all the words that is use
to understand the thoughts of others when someone listens or reads a word.
b.
EXPRESSIVE VOCABULARY
Expressive
vocabulary (productive vocabulary) is the words whose meanings are known well
enough to an individual that people would feel comfortable using word while
writing or speaking.
Expressive vocabulary is the words that must be
known when someone speaks or writes, when someone expresses his thought to
other. The
expressive vocabulary is smaller than receptive vocabulary, because the
receptive vocabulary almost certainly contains many words that someone does not
usually use when speaks and writes.
[1]James F. Shepherd, College
Vocabulary Skill, third edition, (Boston: Houghton MifflinCompany, 1987), p. 3
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