Type of vocabulary
In order to understand how vocabulary items work or relate to the four language skills, it will be helpful to make clear first by grouping the skills into two pairs. Based on type of vocabulary in general, there are four categories of vocabulary learning: listening vocabulary, speaking vocabulary, reading vocabulary, and writing vocabulary. Listening vocabulary refers to words learners use to understand what they hear. Speaking vocabulary is known as words they use when they speak. Reading vocabulary concerns words in prints that they recognise and use to understand what they read, and writing vocabulary involves words they use in their own writing. Pikulski and Templeton (2004, p. 2) have produced a diagram that may make a better understanding of the relationship between vocabulary and the four language skills:
Meanings and Functions of vocabulary Regarding meanings and functions of each vocabulary, let us now discuss meanings and functions of each vocabulary type concerned with the four language skills in details: