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65. Some universities have large, lecture-based classes, whereas others have smaller, discussion-based classes. Which do you think is better and why? Include details and examples to support your explanation.
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| 2016-12-28 | ying.ma | 60.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-10-01 | bishoy | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-09-09 | SaniyaYesmin | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-08-29 | kaziass | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 544.0 444.711560045 122% => OK
No of words: 136.0 116.580246914 117% => OK
Chars per words: 4.0 3.81502700369 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.41495297035 3.28032121604 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.89814150591 1.8723322822 101% => OK
Unique words: 95.0 76.076318743 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.698529411765 0.655143326166 107% => OK
Syllable count: 174.6 141.574747475 123% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0995418194942 0.0738818816272 135% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.20202020202 31% => OK
Average paragraph length: 136.0 60.3232687746 225% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 17.3634065801 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 43.51 22.9064221017 190% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 6.49597621602 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 17.0 31.1548821549 55% => Need more acoustic sentences. Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
Average acoustic sentence length: 8.0 4.0588447711 197% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 6.65980038563 3.18357895611 209% => The length of acoustic sentences changes so often.
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.50176470588 1.46810986539 170% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 2.16853768917 1.01537252472 214% => The duration of acoustic sentences changes so often.
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 18.0 28.6644219978 63% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 2.32 5.28593714927 44% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.128888888889 0.187982170178 69% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.0726398183497 0.154715141812 47% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 38.85 35.408047138 110% => OK
Average word duration: 0.285661764706 0.306236595465 93% => OK
STD word duration: 0.144556635583 0.198589292138 73% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 1.0 6.3164983165 16% => Good job, the lower, the better.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 0.86 5.14435465769 17% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.78 2.80480359147 28% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 43.51 45.0716498316 97% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.966888888889 1.00159221848 97% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.41369800046 0.637764685501 65% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.1257182257 2.58495923209 121% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 2.18340611354 1.68816559523 129% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.4453024453 2.15290372801 114% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.388366125 0.343871460585 113% => OK
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.