Research on active vocabulary in verbal lecture of primary school 8th class students (An example of province of Ulubey in Uşak)

In this study, the active vocabulary in verbal lecture of 90 students at 8th class of four primary schools at the center of Ulubey, county of Uşak (Mehmet Fuat Terci Primary School, Cumhuriyet Primary School, Kuvayi Milliye Primary School, Hüseyin Remzi Deveci Primary School) have been researched.In the research, 90 students, who are chosen from 8th classes at the center of Ulubey county by random method, are made to speak in three different genres (memoir, free subject, autobiography) and tape recorded. Words in verbal data, are examined according to student?s gender and their genre.In our research, throughout 270 verbal lecture data, 14733 words have been determined in total. 1736 of these words were determined to be variety words, whereas 12996 words were the repetition of these words. When female students and male students are compared in terms of totality of words and usage of variety words, it is determined that female students are more succesful according to male students. In three different genres, (memoir, free subject, autobiography) it is seen that the number of the totality of words and variety words are maximum in the genre of memoir.Key Words: Word, Vocabulary , Speaking Expression, Turkish Education