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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Why or why not? Use details and examples to support your answer.
For learning job skills, workplace training is better than a university education.
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This speaking topic by users
| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-12-19 | savikx | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-09-01 | dshah6611 | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-09-01 | dshah6611 | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-11-14 | nagy | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user dshah6611
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- Some people enjoy taking risks and trying new things. Others are not adventurous; they arecautious and prefer to avoid danger. Which behavior do you think is better? Explain why? 60
- University announces changes in campus tour guideTraditionally, staff from the admission office has led the secondary-students who are considering attending the university. Beginning the next semester, however, current students will lead these guided walk 71
- Social loafingWhen people work in groups to perform a task, individual group members may feel less motivated to contribute, since no one person is held directly responsible for completing the task. The result is that people may not work as hard, or accomp 83
- Talk about an important news event that happened recently in your country. Describe the event and explain why it was important. 80
- TPO 21 - Question 3Daily E-mail with campus activitiesThe university will now send all students a daily email containing information about campus events and activities. Rather than get information about campus events once a week in the campus newspaper, s 71
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 586.0 444.711560045 132% => OK
No of words: 145.0 116.580246914 124% => OK
Chars per words: 4.04137931034 3.81502700369 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.47010008196 3.28032121604 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.29204279333 1.8723322822 122% => OK
Unique words: 87.0 76.076318743 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.6 0.655143326166 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 193.5 141.574747475 137% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0222238952409 0.0738818816272 30% => 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: 2.0 3.20202020202 62% => OK
Average paragraph length: 72.5 60.3232687746 120% => OK
STD paragraph length: 61.5 17.3634065801 354% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 29.235 22.9064221017 128% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 23.445 6.49597621602 361% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 48.0 31.1548821549 154% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.02083333333 4.0588447711 74% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.268347263 3.18357895611 71% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.10854166667 1.46810986539 76% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.642806313439 1.01537252472 63% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 49.0 28.6644219978 171% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 10.01 5.28593714927 189% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.204285714286 0.187982170178 109% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.184601059099 0.154715141812 119% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 42.43 35.408047138 120% => OK
Average word duration: 0.292620689655 0.306236595465 96% => OK
STD word duration: 0.164220292289 0.198589292138 83% => 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: 4.8 5.14435465769 93% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.97 2.80480359147 142% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 58.47 45.0716498316 130% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.29933333333 1.00159221848 130% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.838036599966 0.637764685501 131% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.47990422439 2.58495923209 96% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.48794253463 1.68816559523 88% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.05043601226 2.15290372801 95% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.504784765517 0.343871460585 147% => 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.