You will now read a short passage and listen to a conversation on the same topic. You will then be asked a question about them.
Currently, all of the seminar classes in the history department are three hours long. I would like to propose that history seminars be shortened to two hours. I make this proposal for two reasons. First, most students just cannot concentrate for three hours straight. I myself have taken these three-hour seminars and found them tiring and sometimes boring. Also, when a seminar lasts that long, people stop concentrating and stop learning, so the third hour of a three-hour seminar is a waste of everyone’s time. Two-hour seminars would be much more efficient.
Sincerely,
Tim Lawson
The woman expresses her opinion about the proposal described in the letter. Briefly summarize the proposal. Then state her opinion about the proposal and explain the reasons she gives for holding that opinion.
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 387.0 593.389002037 65% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 99.0 154.784114053 64% => More words wanted. You may: choose simpler words or speak faster or remove hesitations or remove long pauses, and fully use the time, do NOT save one or two seconds.
Chars per words: 3.90909090909 3.82920900774 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.15434214553 3.52088357496 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.87536344809 1.81998168104 103% => OK
Unique words: 63.0 93.7942973523 67% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.636363636364 0.608046397892 105% => OK
Syllable count: 121.5 185.724439919 65% => The syllable count is low.
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0625008913248 0.0833886788687 75% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 4.0 3.90020366599 103% => OK
Average paragraph length: 24.75 71.3690273242 35% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 12.4172259382 24.1299301424 51% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 11.445 26.8388033085 43% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 6.41341757568 8.89323425527 72% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 37.0 40.266802444 92% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.67567567568 4.20756893501 64% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.69345407544 3.23972648638 52% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.08432432432 1.51236819293 72% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.595852968171 1.0352206224 58% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 36.0 37.9022403259 95% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 8.98 7.22384928717 124% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.249444444444 0.193825474362 129% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.165024315455 0.16431695912 100% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 29.77 46.6644602851 64% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.300707070707 0.304040633073 99% => OK
STD word duration: 0.16361603565 0.193491353168 85% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 6.0 8.88594704684 68% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.47 6.97134419552 64% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 5.52 3.21433808554 172% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.78 59.1375356415 77% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.763 0.985625594026 77% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.786369593709 0.643888735843 122% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.1625163827 2.61565628039 83% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.37614678899 1.58604529434 87% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.11622438697 2.01333574461 105% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.39251589899 0.322651457988 122% => OK
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Rates: 51.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 15.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.