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Some students prefer to work on class assignments by themselves. Others believe it is better to work in a group. Which do you prefer? Explain why.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
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| 2019-09-12 | comando | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
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| 2017-04-13 | Tulips | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-09-19 | mojtaba_aam | 83.33 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-08-24 | prem123 | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user Elena Cristina
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 435.0 444.711560045 98% => OK
No of words: 115.0 116.580246914 99% => 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: 3.78260869565 3.81502700369 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.27472217062 3.28032121604 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.72844543723 1.8723322822 92% => OK
Unique words: 77.0 76.076318743 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.669565217391 0.655143326166 102% => OK
Syllable count: 134.1 141.574747475 95% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0286715367595 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: 3.0 3.20202020202 94% => OK
Average paragraph length: 38.3333333333 60.3232687746 64% => OK
STD paragraph length: 27.3414622059 17.3634065801 157% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 14.7066666667 22.9064221017 64% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 11.2145213402 6.49597621602 173% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 33.0 31.1548821549 106% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.48484848485 4.0588447711 86% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.18980021396 3.18357895611 69% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.24515151515 1.46810986539 85% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.868981016678 1.01537252472 86% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 29.0 28.6644219978 101% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.61 5.28593714927 106% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.193448275862 0.187982170178 103% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.172632275363 0.154715141812 112% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 33.97 35.408047138 96% => OK
Average word duration: 0.295391304348 0.306236595465 96% => OK
STD word duration: 0.172608060452 0.198589292138 87% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 5.0 6.3164983165 79% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 3.99 5.14435465769 78% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.97 2.80480359147 106% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 44.12 45.0716498316 98% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.980444444444 1.00159221848 98% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.657298277425 0.637764685501 103% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.60652765186 2.58495923209 101% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.74524025385 1.68816559523 103% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.26670591699 2.15290372801 105% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.270016173913 0.343871460585 79% => OK
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.