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55. After college, some students decline to enter the working world right away. Some travel to see the world while others volunteer for an organization like the Peace Corps. Which do you think is better – going right to work or seeing theworld/volunteering – and why?
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-01-14 | brk1 | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-12-16 | ying.ma | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user brk1
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- Some people prefer to learn about current events from watching television news programs. Others prefer to read about current events in newspapers or on the Internet. Which do you think is better: watching the news or reading the news? Explain why.
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- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Why or why not? Use details and examples to explain your answer. It is more important to study math or science than it is to study art or literature. 90
- Over the last ten years, the number of Central College students living on campus in dormitories has decreased by twenty percent. In an effort to counteract the trend, the college has announced a plan to renovate its on-campus housing. The renovations will 80
- Most people agree that it is important to exercise. Some of them run, whereas others prefer to bicycle. Which of the two do you prefer: running or riding a bicycle when exercising. Use details to support your idea. 66
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 486.0 444.711560045 109% => OK
No of words: 135.0 116.580246914 116% => OK
Chars per words: 3.6 3.81502700369 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.4086580994 3.28032121604 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.59721980676 1.8723322822 85% => OK
Unique words: 85.0 76.076318743 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.62962962963 0.655143326166 96% => OK
Syllable count: 153.0 141.574747475 108% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.21358024691 91% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0317071961479 0.0738818816272 43% => 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: 10.0 3.20202020202 312% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 13.5 60.3232687746 22% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 9.72882315596 17.3634065801 56% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 5.473 22.9064221017 24% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 3.33926354156 6.49597621602 51% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 47.0 31.1548821549 151% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.87234042553 4.0588447711 71% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.2180787285 3.18357895611 70% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.05723404255 1.46810986539 72% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.646643385977 1.01537252472 64% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 42.0 28.6644219978 147% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.58 5.28593714927 124% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.156666666667 0.187982170178 83% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.137817454604 0.154715141812 89% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 41.45 35.408047138 117% => OK
Average word duration: 0.307037037037 0.306236595465 100% => OK
STD word duration: 0.158469878311 0.198589292138 80% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 7.0 6.3164983165 111% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.98 5.14435465769 97% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 4.8 2.80480359147 171% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 54.73 45.0716498316 121% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.21622222222 1.00159221848 121% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.76740361776 0.637764685501 120% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.46665448566 2.58495923209 95% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.55307875023 1.68816559523 92% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.05066344994 2.15290372801 95% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.244876437037 0.343871460585 71% => OK
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The speech is either too short or too long. It should be in 45 seconds.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 15.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.