2.2. VOCABULARY CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO THE MEANINGSREAD (2000

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AN INVESTIGATION INTO TEACHERS’ AND STUDENTS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE USE OF VISUAL AIDS IN TEACHING AND LEARNING VOCABULARY AT LE QUY DON GIFTED HIGH SCHOOL DIEN BIEN

1.1.2.2. Vocabulary classified according to the meanings

Read (2000: 18) states that vocabulary can be divided into notional words and functional

words.

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Notional words are words with clear lexical meaning. They address objects, actions, qualities,

etc, and they have meaning in themselves. Notional words form a great number of each speaker's

vocabulary. For example, a boy, a ball, to make, to go...

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Functional words are words which only have meaning in relation to the other words with

which they are used. Functional words are particles, articles, prepositions, auxiliaries,

conjunctions, etc. For instance, on, for, at, the, and, because....