Speaking topics in text
Some students would choose to study a subject because it brings plenty of
job opportunities. Instead, others would choose to study a subject which
really interests them, although it probably doesn’t sell well in the job
market. Which opinion do you agree with? Explain why.
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2016-10-24 | mgrajapt | Check this speaking | |
2018-10-30 | germennn | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
2018-10-28 | germennn | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
2018-10-28 | germennn | 60.00 | Check this speaking |
2019-05-14 | leematt1214 | Check this speaking |
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- Most schools support extra-curricular activities, such as clubs and sports teams.Some schools pay for these activities, some require that students pay, and someuse a mix of school funds and student payments. Which do you think is preferable,and why? 60
- Which of the following cities would you most like to visit and why? (1) Moscow in Russia; (2) New Delhi in India; (3) Rome in Italy. 85
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 432.0 444.711560045 97% => OK
No of words: 96.0 116.580246914 82% => More words wanted. You may: choose simpler words or speak faster or remove hesitations or remove long pauses, and fully use the time, do NOT save one or two seconds.
Chars per words: 4.5 3.81502700369 118% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.13016916015 3.28032121604 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.2032173444 1.8723322822 118% => OK
Unique words: 68.0 76.076318743 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.708333333333 0.655143326166 108% => OK
Syllable count: 130.5 141.574747475 92% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.21358024691 115% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0621204103452 0.0738818816272 84% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 3.20202020202 94% => OK
Average paragraph length: 32.0 60.3232687746 53% => OK
STD paragraph length: 26.8824602049 17.3634065801 155% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 15.1933333333 22.9064221017 66% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 12.8454306619 6.49597621602 198% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 34.0 31.1548821549 109% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.82352941176 4.0588447711 70% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.72303747246 3.18357895611 54% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.27235294118 1.46810986539 87% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.76734093513 1.01537252472 76% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 33.0 28.6644219978 115% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 8.27 5.28593714927 156% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.250606060606 0.187982170178 133% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.193233088859 0.154715141812 125% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 34.92 35.408047138 99% => OK
Average word duration: 0.36375 0.306236595465 119% => OK
STD word duration: 0.221581672302 0.198589292138 112% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 10.0 6.3164983165 158% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 8.21 5.14435465769 160% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.03 2.80480359147 37% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.58 45.0716498316 101% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.01288888889 1.00159221848 101% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.724001755156 0.637764685501 114% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.10618692409 2.58495923209 81% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.49188240456 1.68816559523 88% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.94730813288 2.15290372801 90% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.324616635417 0.343871460585 94% => OK
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.