Q155204 – Língua Inglesa – Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisa em Avaliação e Seleção (CEBRASPE/CESPE) 2017

the difference between active vocabulary and receptive vocabulary must be disregarded as a factor to estimate how many words a person knows.

undergraduate students acquire vocabulary related to word families after enrolling at universities.

the similarity of some word families prevents students from counting the number of words they really know.

both native speakers and second language learners have a larger passive vocabulary than an active vocabulary.

studies are certain that the average English speaker knows about 1,000 words by the time she or he starts Kindergarten.