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Some people believe that primary schools should no longer teach children how to write by hand, and instead should spend time teaching them how to type on a computer. Other people believe that it is still important for schools to teach children to have good handwriting. Which point of view do you agree with? Explain why.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-05-31 | Elena Cristina | 30.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-02-13 | mgrajapt | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-09-11 | Navis | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-11-28 | donya goodarz | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-10-18 | Seema Modak | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 487.0 444.711560045 110% => OK
No of words: 121.0 116.580246914 104% => OK
Chars per words: 4.02479338843 3.81502700369 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.31662479036 3.28032121604 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.09076208937 1.8723322822 112% => OK
Unique words: 81.0 76.076318743 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.669421487603 0.655143326166 102% => OK
Syllable count: 136.8 141.574747475 97% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.21358024691 91% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0919830134294 0.0738818816272 125% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.20202020202 31% => OK
Average paragraph length: 121.0 60.3232687746 201% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 17.3634065801 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 46.24 22.9064221017 202% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 6.49597621602 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 35.0 31.1548821549 112% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.45714285714 4.0588447711 85% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.12929038673 3.18357895611 67% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.28971428571 1.46810986539 88% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.779437473766 1.01537252472 77% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 39.0 28.6644219978 136% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.03 5.28593714927 95% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.128974358974 0.187982170178 69% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.11229071409 0.154715141812 73% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 38.61 35.408047138 109% => OK
Average word duration: 0.319090909091 0.306236595465 104% => OK
STD word duration: 0.207909707039 0.198589292138 105% => 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: 7.9 5.14435465769 154% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.97 2.80480359147 35% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 46.24 45.0716498316 103% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.02755555556 1.00159221848 103% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.843425605536 0.637764685501 132% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.61678200692 2.58495923209 101% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.75173010381 1.68816559523 104% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.0979020979 2.15290372801 97% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.319799983471 0.343871460585 93% => OK
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Maybe the speech is too long. It should be in 45 seconds.
Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.