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Sociobiologists believe that some communicative behavior in animals is developed through a process called ritualization. In this process, the purpose of a given behavior changes over time—a behavior that originally had a practical purpose develops into one that communicates a specific message. For example, a certain movement or physical feature might evolve to serve as a signal or a warning that other animals will understand. Once a behavior is ritualized, it becomes a form of communication; therefore, if an animal engages in this behavior, other animals will be able to interpret the meaning of the behavior quickly and respond appropriately.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-23 | nasimn | 60.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-08-03 | toeflbeginner | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-02-27 | -vv- | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-08-19 | mike818 | 51.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-12-26 | bishoy | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user ajulyav
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- Talk about a country or culture that you would like to learn more about. What is the country or culture and why would you like to learn more about it? 80
- The speakers discuss two possible solutions to the man's problem. Briefly summarize the problem. Then state which solution you recommend and explain why. 60
- Explain how the example in the lecture illustrates the concept of scope creep. 65
- Some people like to shop in large grocery stores and department stores. Other people prefer to shop in small specialty stores or shops. Which do you prefer? Explain why. 80
- Some teachers think that it is important for students to sit in assigned seats that is to sit in the same place every day in class Other teachers think that students should be allowed to choose where they will sit and they allow them to sit in different s 70
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 688.0 592.248995984 116% => OK
No of words: 164.0 155.574297189 105% => OK
Chars per words: 4.19512195122 3.80514564318 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.57858190836 3.525876923 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.17770871079 1.79077849142 122% => OK
Unique words: 100.0 93.7148594378 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.609756097561 0.604071249207 101% => OK
Syllable count: 216.0 185.844578313 116% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.19417670683 109% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0127636623878 0.0650381309087 20% => 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: 1.0 4.35341365462 23% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 164.0 68.503853103 239% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 21.3332995233 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 54.94 25.9943957902 211% => 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: 27.0 42.0642570281 64% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.07407407407 4.02192344571 151% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.98832656514 3.1217529195 160% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.01 1.45093177766 139% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.39859188445 0.99851816184 140% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 23.0 39.0421686747 59% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 3.42 7.12997991968 48% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.148695652174 0.185688545393 80% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.149180496097 0.155154303396 96% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 47.71 47.1480722892 101% => OK
Average word duration: 0.290914634146 0.305395592593 95% => OK
STD word duration: 0.166146475284 0.189427763521 88% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 5.0 7.94979919679 63% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 3.73 6.2937751004 59% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.88 3.39508032129 55% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 54.94 59.7592369478 92% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.915666666667 0.995987282463 92% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.418638514743 0.656000678711 64% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.98507462687 2.60215298798 115% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.82016745541 1.56821927147 116% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.09599664641 1.99336655568 105% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.448064609756 0.317803793328 141% => OK
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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.