Lexical availability of 6-year-old children. Scope and didactic projection of children's lexical corpus

Our aim is to present -in the frame of Lexical Availability- the studies dedicated to early ages, 6-year-old children, examining the scope that this kind of works give to the development of programming and planning the teaching of languages. For this purpose, a short exploration on the bases of discipline is offered; quantitative results obtained in Spain (Gran Canaria and Valencia) and in Chile (Talca) are compared; and the associative relationships generated in the available lexical inventories are analysed. We conclude that the available lexical corpus of children provide accurate bases to programme the vocabulary that schoolchildren in the first years of Primary School must learn, both in terms of richness and accuracy as well as in terms of lexicon formation using associative networks.