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Explain how the example from the lecture illustrates the technique of questioning awareness of effect.
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This speaking topic by users
| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-06-11 | Z ZHANG | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-03-10 | toeflibt.ara | 96.67 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-08-06 | dshah6611 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-05-23 | Elena Cristina | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-10-09 | Lao Zhiquan | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user Elena Cristina
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- Some university students choose to take difficult classes even if they know they might not get a good grade in the class. Other students prefer to take easier classes in which they know they will get a good grade. Which do you prefer? Explain why. 73
- People set a variety of goals for themselves throughout their lives. Describe one goal you would like to achieve in the future, and explain why this goal is important to you. Include specific details in your explanation. 75
- Explain groupthink and its effects using example of the computer company 90
- Explain how the example of the prairie dog illustrates the concept of habituation. 83
- Using the example of the urn plant explain how epiphytes have adapted to life in the rain forest 70
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 602.0 592.248995984 102% => OK
No of words: 166.0 155.574297189 107% => OK
Chars per words: 3.6265060241 3.80514564318 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.58944267634 3.525876923 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.84136436695 1.79077849142 103% => OK
Unique words: 92.0 93.7148594378 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.55421686747 0.604071249207 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 187.2 185.844578313 101% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.19417670683 92% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0140533261939 0.0650381309087 22% => 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: 4.0 4.35341365462 92% => OK
Average paragraph length: 41.5 68.503853103 61% => OK
STD paragraph length: 25.889186932 21.3332995233 121% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 14.6825 25.9943957902 56% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 8.62405175947 7.84667146824 110% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 38.0 42.0642570281 90% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.36842105263 4.02192344571 109% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.92978540081 3.1217529195 126% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.48973684211 1.45093177766 103% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.10964547881 0.99851816184 111% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 33.0 39.0421686747 85% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.18 7.12997991968 101% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.217575757576 0.185688545393 117% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.18406241206 0.155154303396 119% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 47.57 47.1480722892 101% => OK
Average word duration: 0.28656626506 0.305395592593 94% => OK
STD word duration: 0.170872015289 0.189427763521 90% => 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: 6.92 6.2937751004 110% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.9 3.39508032129 56% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 58.73 59.7592369478 98% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.978833333333 0.995987282463 98% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.561893410523 0.656000678711 86% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.82649412566 2.60215298798 109% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.56649072025 1.56821927147 100% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.93399201177 1.99336655568 97% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.331674813253 0.317803793328 104% => OK
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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.