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Explain how the examples from the professor's lecture illustrate the relationship between verbal and nonverbal communication.
Verbal and Nonverbal Communication
When we speak with other people face-to-face the nonverbal signals we give—our facial expressions, hand gestures, body movements, and tone of voice—often communicate as much as, or more than, the words we utter. When our nonverbal signals, which we often produce unconsciously, agree with our verbal message, the verbal message is enhanced and supported, made more convincing. But when they conflict with the verbal message, we may be communicating an entirely different and more accurate message than what we intend.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-03-21 | Elena Cristina | 63.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-06-07 | Elena Cristina | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 502.0 592.248995984 85% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 136.0 155.574297189 87% => 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: 3.69117647059 3.80514564318 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.41495297035 3.525876923 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.89626066201 1.79077849142 106% => OK
Unique words: 88.0 93.7148594378 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.647058823529 0.604071249207 107% => OK
Syllable count: 165.6 185.844578313 89% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0207148281112 0.0650381309087 32% => It may have issues on recording quality or the content is not so closely related to content.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 6.0 4.35341365462 138% => OK
Average paragraph length: 23.3333333333 68.503853103 34% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 11.7567947257 21.3332995233 55% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 9.255 25.9943957902 36% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 4.23824550964 7.84667146824 54% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 29.0 42.0642570281 69% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.68965517241 4.02192344571 117% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.00950120103 3.1217529195 128% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.79137931034 1.45093177766 123% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.54901019372 0.99851816184 155% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 26.0 39.0421686747 67% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.73 7.12997991968 80% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.220384615385 0.185688545393 119% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.171923076923 0.155154303396 111% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 44.37 47.1480722892 94% => OK
Average word duration: 0.32625 0.305395592593 107% => OK
STD word duration: 0.185214253914 0.189427763521 98% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 9.0 7.94979919679 113% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 7.4 6.2937751004 118% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.11 3.39508032129 92% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 55.53 59.7592369478 93% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.9255 0.995987282463 93% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.468215379074 0.656000678711 71% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.44912659824 2.60215298798 94% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.58472897533 1.56821927147 101% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.98332206446 1.99336655568 99% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.357070860294 0.317803793328 112% => OK
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Rates: 63.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 19.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.