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The Familiarity Principle
People tend to develop a preference for things they have previously encountered, things they are familiar with. Social psychologists refer to this tendency as the familiarity principle. Given a choice between two similar items, one they have experienced before and another that is new. most people will choose the familiar item. This principle operates even when people are not conscious of their previous experience with an item. Once people have been exposed to an item, even if they do not recall having been exposed to it, they will tend to prefer that item over other items to which they have not been previously exposed.
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| 2018-08-05 | toeflbeginner | 81.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 626.0 592.248995984 106% => OK
No of words: 146.0 155.574297189 94% => 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: 4.28767123288 3.80514564318 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.47606760199 3.525876923 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.18638033297 1.79077849142 122% => OK
Unique words: 92.0 93.7148594378 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.630136986301 0.604071249207 104% => OK
Syllable count: 203.4 185.844578313 109% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.19417670683 117% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0576419763802 0.0650381309087 89% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 4.35341365462 23% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 146.0 68.503853103 213% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 21.3332995233 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 58.93 25.9943957902 227% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 7.84667146824 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 40.0 42.0642570281 95% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.65 4.02192344571 91% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.1277922831 3.1217529195 68% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.4325 1.45093177766 99% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.807024627877 0.99851816184 81% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 41.0 39.0421686747 105% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.55 7.12997991968 92% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.159756097561 0.185688545393 86% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.115156051171 0.155154303396 74% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 48.68 47.1480722892 103% => OK
Average word duration: 0.333424657534 0.305395592593 109% => OK
STD word duration: 0.195270933511 0.189427763521 103% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 10.0 7.94979919679 126% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 7.69 6.2937751004 122% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.76 3.39508032129 52% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 58.93 59.7592369478 99% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.982166666667 0.995987282463 99% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.695740709316 0.656000678711 106% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.47751569659 2.60215298798 95% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.56117427456 1.56821927147 100% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.88989317995 1.99336655568 95% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.432954075342 0.317803793328 136% => OK
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Don't repeat words, phrases and sentences. or More unique words wanted.
Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.