Speaking topics in text
TPO 03 - Question 4
Cognitive Dissonance
Individuals sometimes experience a contradiction between their actions and their beliefs－between what they are doing and what they believe they should be doing. These contradictions can cause a kind of mental discomfort known as cognitive dissonance. People experiencing cognitive dissonance often do not want to change the way they are acting, so they resolve the contradictory situation in another way, they change their interpretation of the situation in a way that minimizes the contradiction between what they are doing and what they believe should be doing.
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Votes
This speaking topic by users
| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-10-29 | Seema Modak | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-01-12 | mgrajapt | Check this speaking | |
| 2018-08-30 | prem123 | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-08-02 | toeflbeginner | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-09-21 | gayatri soni | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
Speaking category
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 555.0 592.248995984 94% => OK
No of words: 159.0 155.574297189 102% => OK
Chars per words: 3.49056603774 3.80514564318 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.55098862472 3.525876923 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.60136704386 1.79077849142 89% => OK
Unique words: 88.0 93.7148594378 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.553459119497 0.604071249207 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 183.6 185.844578313 99% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0178939718299 0.0650381309087 28% => 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: 159.0 68.503853103 232% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 21.3332995233 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 71.71 25.9943957902 276% => 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: 68.0 42.0642570281 162% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.33823529412 4.02192344571 58% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.85987265628 3.1217529195 60% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.04455882353 1.45093177766 72% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.585469730527 0.99851816184 59% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 67.0 39.0421686747 172% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 18.29 7.12997991968 257% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.272985074627 0.185688545393 147% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.19407657302 0.155154303396 125% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 50.42 47.1480722892 107% => OK
Average word duration: 0.317106918239 0.305395592593 104% => OK
STD word duration: 0.157880401801 0.189427763521 83% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 9.0 7.94979919679 113% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 6.59 6.2937751004 105% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.7 3.39508032129 21% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 71.71 59.7592369478 120% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.19516666667 0.995987282463 120% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.934318783991 0.656000678711 142% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.21726397992 2.60215298798 85% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.22716497002 1.56821927147 78% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.74533915113 1.99336655568 88% => Need more unique words.
Average articulation rates: 0.330100761006 0.317803793328 104% => OK
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.