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The Familiarity Principle
People tend to develop a preference for things they have previously encountered, things they are familiar with. Social psychologists refer to this tendency as the familiarity principle. Given a choice between two similar items, one they have experienced before and another that is new. most people will choose the familiar item. This principle operates even when people are not conscious of their previous experience with an item. Once people have been exposed to an item, even if they do not recall having been exposed to it, they will tend to prefer that item over other items to which they have not been previously exposed.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
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| 2017-03-10 | mgrajapt | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-09-14 | Taniazehra | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-08-05 | toeflbeginner | 81.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-08-28 | donya goodarz | 10.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-11-17 | lhmbehnam | 76.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user fahim135
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- TPO 33 - Question 1A friend of yours wants to go to university next year but cannot decide on a major field of study. What advice would you give your friend to help make this decision? 80
- TPO 31 - Question 1Parents need to make sure their children lead healthy lives. What can parents do to help their children have healthy lifestyles? 60
- q2Some people prefer to learn information by watching television. Others prefer to learn by reading books. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer 50
- TPO 29 - Question 1Which of the following jobs or careers do you think would be most rewarding?University professorEnvironmental scientistNewspaper journalistChoose one career and explain why you think it would be most rewarding. Use details and examples 65
- TPO 33 - Question 5 70
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 508.0 592.248995984 86% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 131.0 155.574297189 84% => 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: 3.87786259542 3.80514564318 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.38312328216 3.525876923 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.74750815291 1.79077849142 98% => OK
Unique words: 96.0 93.7148594378 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.732824427481 0.604071249207 121% => OK
Syllable count: 154.8 185.844578313 83% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0775259384547 0.0650381309087 119% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 4.35341365462 69% => OK
Average paragraph length: 43.6666666667 68.503853103 64% => OK
STD paragraph length: 49.7750495284 21.3332995233 233% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 20.14 25.9943957902 77% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 22.7762171281 7.84667146824 290% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 45.0 42.0642570281 107% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.91111111111 4.02192344571 72% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.07441796091 3.1217529195 66% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.26222222222 1.45093177766 87% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.786629628758 0.99851816184 79% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 48.0 39.0421686747 123% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 10.11 7.12997991968 142% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.210625 0.185688545393 113% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.159379084915 0.155154303396 103% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 47.28 47.1480722892 100% => OK
Average word duration: 0.360916030534 0.305395592593 118% => OK
STD word duration: 0.18907751301 0.189427763521 100% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 15.0 7.94979919679 189% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 10.9 6.2937751004 173% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.18 3.39508032129 35% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 60.42 59.7592369478 101% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.007 0.995987282463 101% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.794438927507 0.656000678711 121% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.16815623966 2.60215298798 83% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.58887785501 1.56821927147 101% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.03045685279 1.99336655568 102% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.250334038168 0.317803793328 79% => OK
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.