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TPO 44 - Question 2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-01-11 | brk1 | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-09-12 | Christine hanna | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-09-11 | civil2017 | 60.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-09-10 | Sh-a | 60.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-01-26 | hipax | 65.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user bishoy
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 480.0 444.711560045 108% => OK
No of words: 117.0 116.580246914 100% => OK
Chars per words: 4.10256410256 3.81502700369 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.28886816799 3.28032121604 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.24706690259 1.8723322822 120% => OK
Unique words: 85.0 76.076318743 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.726495726496 0.655143326166 111% => OK
Syllable count: 153.0 141.574747475 108% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0972449852565 0.0738818816272 132% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 4.0 3.20202020202 125% => OK
Average paragraph length: 29.25 60.3232687746 48% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 14.4287040305 17.3634065801 83% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 11.395 22.9064221017 50% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 4.62783696774 6.49597621602 71% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 21.0 31.1548821549 67% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.57142857143 4.0588447711 137% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 5.86004573825 3.18357895611 184% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.04571428571 1.46810986539 139% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.74023143351 1.01537252472 171% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 17.0 28.6644219978 59% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.48 5.28593714927 85% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.263529411765 0.187982170178 140% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.173610150709 0.154715141812 112% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 36.99 35.408047138 104% => OK
Average word duration: 0.316153846154 0.306236595465 103% => OK
STD word duration: 0.188823827601 0.198589292138 95% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 9.0 6.3164983165 142% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 6.98 5.14435465769 136% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.69 2.80480359147 96% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.58 45.0716498316 101% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.01288888889 1.00159221848 101% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.372970601141 0.637764685501 58% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.56691531373 2.58495923209 99% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.8648530057 1.68816559523 110% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.29791835631 2.15290372801 107% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.506252905983 0.343871460585 147% => 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.