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The available lexicon refers to the set of words that the speaker keeps stored in his mental lexicon and that are ready to be used when the communicative circumstances require it. This article exposes a study of lexical availability carried out in a sample of first-year students from two university extensions located in the Ngäbe-Buglé region of the province of Veraguas. The purpose of this research is to know the available lexical level of the second language in which these students are. The methodology used was subject to the provisions of the Pan-Hispanic Project of Lexical Availability but accommodated within the third block of these studies. The Dispolex computer program was used for data processing. The qualitative analysis of the results allows us to conclude that sociocultural factors influence the acquisition and production process of the lexicon of the second language; and the male sex maintained a greater availability of lexis because of constant contact with environments in which communicating in a second language is inevitable.
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