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TPO 23 - Question 4
Reference Groups
Our thinking and behavior are often influenced by other people. When we admire and respect someone, we naturally try to imitate their behavior and attitudes. Groups of people whom we admire and whose behavior and attitudes we tend to imitate are known as reference groups. Reference groups provide a model--a frame of reference--that can shape how we think and behave. Over the course of a lifetime, we may be influenced by many different reference groups. As we grow older, or encounter new circumstances, our reference groups may change, and our attitudes and behavior may change accordingly.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-10-11 | chandr | 53.33 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-08-03 | toeflbeginner | 88.33 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-01-20 | paras001 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-07-25 | Valeria1949 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-05-08 | Tulips | 88.00 | Check this speaking |
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- TPO 28 - Question 6 81
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 610.0 592.248995984 103% => OK
No of words: 152.0 155.574297189 98% => 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: 4.01315789474 3.80514564318 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.51124308557 3.525876923 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.78069635294 1.79077849142 99% => OK
Unique words: 101.0 93.7148594378 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.664473684211 0.604071249207 110% => OK
Syllable count: 192.6 185.844578313 104% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.19417670683 109% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0735173668207 0.0650381309087 113% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 4.35341365462 23% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 152.0 68.503853103 222% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 21.3332995233 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 61.74 25.9943957902 238% => 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: 43.0 42.0642570281 102% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.53488372093 4.02192344571 88% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.03735531541 3.1217529195 97% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.40372093023 1.45093177766 97% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.09238595968 0.99851816184 109% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 46.0 39.0421686747 118% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 10.67 7.12997991968 150% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.231956521739 0.185688545393 125% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.253494014724 0.155154303396 163% => The duration of acoustic silence changes often. It may have hesitations.
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 47.82 47.1480722892 101% => OK
Average word duration: 0.314605263158 0.305395592593 103% => OK
STD word duration: 0.173208429276 0.189427763521 91% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 8.0 7.94979919679 101% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 6.29 6.2937751004 100% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.26 3.39508032129 37% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 61.74 59.7592369478 103% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.029 0.995987282463 103% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.745059928733 0.656000678711 114% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.46193715581 2.60215298798 95% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.63589245222 1.56821927147 104% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.11208699289 1.99336655568 106% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.347133934211 0.317803793328 109% => OK
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Maybe the speech is too long. It should be in 60 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.