Receptive and Controlled-Productive Vocabulary of English as a Foreign Language College Student

AbstractThe purposes of this study were to see the development of students’ receptive and controlled-productive vocabulary and to determine the relationship between mastery of receptive vocabulary and controlled-productive vocabulary. This study uses a cross-sectional design to see the development in every level of students in the direct time and a quantitative correlation research design to find out the relationship between receptive and controlled-productive vocabulary. Vocabulary Size Test was used to measure students' receptive vocabulary level and Productive version of Vocabulary Level Test was used to find controlled-productive vocabulary level. The results showed that most students could recognize 3300 words families in the receptive vocabulary mastery test and only around 1800 families could be used productively-controlled by students. The value of the receptive vocabulary mastery test and productive-controlled vocabulary correlates with each other with a moderate correlation (.637) and has a positive significant relationship. Keywords: vocabulary, receptive vocabulary, controlled-productive vocabulary