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Some people believe it is important for universities to provide funding for student entertainment, such as movies or concerts on campus. Others believe that university money should only be used for academic purposes. Which view do you agree with? Explain why.
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This speaking topic by users
| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-08-13 | Aftab1 | 75.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-09-08 | mehrnazsadr | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-10-24 | donya goodarz | Check this speaking | |
| 2017-01-29 | paras001 | 60.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-09-27 | Marword | 76.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user Elena Cristina
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- Explain how the example of the television advertisement for pots and pans from the lecture illustrates the technique of refute-and-persuade. 76
- The man expresses his opinion about the proposal described in the letter Briefly summarize the proposal then state his opinion about the proposal and explain the reasons he gives for holding that opinion 94
- What characteristics do you think make someone a good parent? Explain why these characteristics are important to you. 75
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 490.0 444.711560045 110% => OK
No of words: 124.0 116.580246914 106% => OK
Chars per words: 3.95161290323 3.81502700369 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.33699396548 3.28032121604 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.9254443924 1.8723322822 103% => OK
Unique words: 87.0 76.076318743 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.701612903226 0.655143326166 107% => OK
Syllable count: 153.9 141.574747475 109% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0286839798589 0.0738818816272 39% => 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: 5.0 3.20202020202 156% => OK
Average paragraph length: 24.8 60.3232687746 41% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 8.15843122175 17.3634065801 47% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 8.822 22.9064221017 39% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 3.46517762892 6.49597621602 53% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 27.0 31.1548821549 87% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.59259259259 4.0588447711 113% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.111945194 3.18357895611 129% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.56259259259 1.46810986539 106% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.24255290548 1.01537252472 122% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 27.0 28.6644219978 94% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.03 5.28593714927 95% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.186296296296 0.187982170178 99% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.183971578887 0.154715141812 119% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 35.09 35.408047138 99% => OK
Average word duration: 0.282983870968 0.306236595465 92% => OK
STD word duration: 0.172953377266 0.198589292138 87% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 7.0 6.3164983165 111% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.36 5.14435465769 104% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.42 2.80480359147 86% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 44.11 45.0716498316 98% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.980222222222 1.00159221848 98% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.61210609839 0.637764685501 96% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.81115393335 2.58495923209 109% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.97234187259 1.68816559523 117% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.47933884298 2.15290372801 115% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.266791193548 0.343871460585 78% => OK
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.