Objective of the Study

the vocabulary of Applied Linguistics. In other words, most technical words occur only in one specialized area. Technical words are very important for anyone who specializes in a particular area such as a doctor, linguist, educationalist and etc. The number of technical words would seem at least 20 of the running words of technical words. d. Low frequency words. These words do not often occur in daily use and can be found in friendly conversation about 5, in newspaper about 10, and in academic text about 10. In addition, these words have a narrow scope; so that the uses of these words are rarely found. 6 Different with Nation, Haycraft in Vocabulary Semantics and Language Education classifies the vocabulary in two kinds, namely receptive vocabulary and productive vocabulary: 1. Receptive vocabulary is words which come in a context that students recognize and understand in reading and listening, but they cannot produce those words perfectly. 2. Productive vocabulary is words which students understand of those words then they can pronounce and use correctly in speaking and writing. 7 Read mentions two kinds of vocabulary, those are: a. Function words. These words can be seen in grammatical aspects, such as articles, prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions, auxiliaries, etc. b. Content words. These words modify the meaning and provide links to the sentences. The kinds of these words are noun, verb, adjective, and adverb. 8 Those are kinds of vocabulary according to some language experts. Although they have classified vocabulary in different kinds, the important things 6 I. S. P. Nation, Teaching Vocabulary: Strategies and Techniques, Boston: Heinle Cengage Learning, 2008, pp. 7 —14. 7 Evelyn Hatch and Cheryl Brown, Vocabulary, Semantics and Language Education, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995, p 370. 8 John Read, Assessing Vocabulary, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000, p. 18.