Briefly summarize the problem the speakers are discussing. Then state which solution you would recommend. Explain the reasons for your recommendation.
1. How is it going Mary?
2. Got your schedule all worked out for this semester?
3. It's coming together.
4. Actually I just heard about my student teaching assignment.
5. Teaching assignment.
6. You are student teaching?
7. Yeah, you know I am majoring in education, so one of the requirements is to teach for a semester in a classroom, usually at the local school in town.
8. We help teach the kids at school one day a week.
9. I just got my class assignment.
10. Well, that's good.
11. Yeah, but I've got a scheduling problem.
12. Ah oh.
13. The day I have been assigned to teach at the school in town will be the same day my Chinese history course meets here at the university.
14. Hmmm, well, could you wait to take the Chinese history course?
15. Sign up for it another semester or something.
16. Yeah, but this one is taught by Doctor Zhang.
17. He is a visiting professor.
18. He will only be here one semester, and he is supposed to do be amazing.
19. I am really interested in the class since I might be visiting China.
20. Is there another option?
21. Yeah, actually, the teaching assignment is on a day when I will be working with older kids, teenagers, but the school also needs a student teacher to work in a classroom with little kids like five and six year olds and it is on a different day when I am free.
22. So I could do it.
23. So you could change your teaching assignment to a different day.
24. Yeah.
25. It's just that I really want to teach older kids.
26. Oh.
27. I am planning on teaching older kids when I graduate.
28. So it would be better experience for me, for my career.
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 653.0 599.738853503 109% => OK
No of words: 170.0 158.596602972 107% => OK
Chars per words: 3.84117647059 3.77925476217 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.61087313685 3.54123138178 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.83224671583 1.79916674678 102% => OK
Unique words: 99.0 95.8789808917 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.582352941176 0.607024082132 96% => OK
Syllable count: 201.6 189.005732484 107% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19129511677 101% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0797743755036 0.0831539838537 96% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 4.29936305732 23% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 170.0 70.8089261375 240% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 23.6022091992 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 53.47 25.9380837976 206% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 8.54438981162 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 41.0 40.7070063694 101% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.14634146341 4.24305496596 98% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.83160820376 3.29867071766 146% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.2612195122 1.4825078846 85% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.28973280485 1.02222390891 126% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 45.0 38.0 118% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.12 7.14643312102 100% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.158222222222 0.189447223375 84% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.140543214214 0.156783300276 90% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 43.47 46.7170700637 93% => OK
Average word duration: 0.255705882353 0.297490414073 86% => OK
STD word duration: 0.142601156957 0.186336302485 77% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 3.0 7.29723991507 41% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 2.27 5.7916985138 39% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.71 3.38276008493 21% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 53.47 59.3491295117 90% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.891166666667 0.989152158528 90% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.841593416869 0.642608181899 131% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 3.17935290817 2.6701766005 119% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.85150551711 1.61481078811 115% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.27743271222 2.05366198651 111% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.291238194118 0.327712499341 89% => OK
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.