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What is Vocabulary?
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Beginning readers should develop a rich and functional vocabulary. |
Definition: As a learner begins to read, reading vocabulary is
mapped onto the oral vocabulary the learner brings to the task.
Vocabulary Knowledge is...
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Learning, as a language based activity, is fundamentally and profoundly
dependent on vocabulary knowledge. Learners must have access to the meanings of
words that teachers, or their surrogates (e.g., other adults, books, films, etc.),
use to guide them into contemplating known concepts in novel ways (i.e. to learn
something new). |
| (Baker, Simmons, & Kame'enui, 1998) See
References |
Expressive Vocabulary: Requires a speaker or writer to
produce a specific label for a particular meaning.
Receptive Vocabulary: Requires a reader to associate
a specific meaning with a given label as in reading or listening.
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