A study about 5th class student?s of primary school wealth of active vocabulary (example of Manisa / Turgutlu)

This work has been done to determine the active vocabulary of the 5th grade students of an elementary school in their written narration.In order to determine the active vocabulary of the students, 90 students from the 5th grades of elemetary schools in Turgutlu city center have been choosen at random and they have been made to write 270 compositons in 3 different types (memory writing, autobiography writing and free ? subject writing). The words used in these samples have been examined according to social-economic levels of the students, their genders and types of narrating. After examining these words, totally 31305 words have been found out, and 2743 of these words are various kindS and the rest 28562 are the repetition of these 2743 words.The students whose social-economic levels are medium have been succesful at both using more words and using various kinds of words. Girls are superior at using more words,and boys are at various kinds. When considering the types, more words have been used at autobiography writing and various kinds of words have been used at free-subject writing.At the end of our work, word lists have been formed according to social-economic levels, genders and kinds, and by comparing these words with the ones used in the works done previously in this field such as Mehmet Öztekin?s thesis named ?Determining the active vocabulary of the 5th grade students of an elementary school in their written narration/Düzce ?Akçakoca Sample? and Ali Karahan?s thesis named ?Determining the Active vocabulary of Village Elementary Schools 5th grade students of Uşak-Ulubey? and Kadir Duru?s thesis named ?Determining the active Vocabulary of the 5th Grade students of an elementary school in written narration/Uşak- Sivaslı sample? and Hayriye Ünsal?s thesis named ?Active Vocabulary of 5th, 8th and 11th grade students of an elementary school in their oral narration/Afyon City Center Sample? and Mustafa Çıplak?s thesis named ?Determining the active vocabulary of the 5th, 8th and 11th grade students of Uşak City Center elementary school in their written narration? and new word lists with the combination of all common ones have been prepared.