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E: Examiner

S: Student

E:  Okay. First of all, I'd like to ask you some questions about yourself. Let's talk about what you do. Do you work or are you a student? 

S: I’m still a student and learning in Hong Kong U Educ, the Education University of Hong Kong. 

E:  What subject do you study? 

S: I study in the Chinese educations. 

E:  Why? 

S: Because I would like to be a teacher in the future and I'll enjoy the, the pro, the progress of the teaching. 

E:  Why? 

S: When I had the … when I talk with the student I feel very … enjoy this moment because the student can learn some knowledge in my course and, and then I can think some method to let them to learn something they don't know. 

E:  Thank you. Let's talk about free time activities now. What do you like to do in your free time? 

S: I love it. I love to reading books in my free times or in some, in weekend I would like to do some physical exercise such as running because I enjoy running, it’s let me to relax in my after my daily work. 

E:  Do you prefer to spend most of your free time indoors or outdoors? 

S: Artworks. 

E:  Why? 

S: Because I enjoy the artworks because it's made me think a lot about what is beautiful. When I'm reading or when I seeing some pictures in the museum, I feel relax and I, and I would like to I enjoy this moment because it's make me feel relax and I feel quiet. 

E:  What did you like to do in your free time when you were a child?  

S: When I'm a child, I usually go to the McDonald's to eat some chips, eat the chips, and, and then I would like to hiking with my grandpa. 

E:  What do you plan to do in your free time this weekend? 

S: This weekend? I would, I will, I will go to watching, I will going, I will go to watch the movie. 

E:  Let's talk about travel. Do you like to travel? 

S: I love to travel.  

E:  Why?  

S: Because travel can let me have a wide, wide seeing and when travel, I can see the world I haven't seen before such as I go to China, I have done travel in China, I have learned I can learn about many culture things in China. Because when I living in Hong Kong, I, I, many Chinese culture is I, is not very traditional. And so I would like to go travel because I would like to see more things I haven't, I don't know yet. 

E:  Thank you.  

General Descriptions:

FLUENCY AND COHERENCE

Repetition: 9 times

Self-correction: 12 times

Discourse markers (2 times)

And then: 2 times

Connectives (24 times)

And: 6 times

Because: 9 times

Or: 2 times

So: 1 time

When: 6 times

Average length of response

Total duration: 206.85s ÷ 11 responses = 18.80s/response

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LEXICAL RESOURCE

Less common words: no less common words is identified.

Paraphrase: no paraphrase is coded.

Idiomatic expressions: no idiomatic expression is identified.

Collocations: 1 collocation is coded.

watch movie

Appropriacy of the words used: 11 inappropriate uses of words are coded.

Inappropriate collocation: 5 times
(learning in → studying at;
learn some knowledge → acquire some knowledge;
think some method → think of some methods;
in weekend → in weekends;
let me have a wide seeing → broaden my horizon)

Inappropriate word choice: 3 times
(the progress of teaching → the process of teaching;
seeing some pictures → looking at some pictures;
feel quiet → feel calm)

Inappropriate word form: 3 times
(feel relax → feel relaxed;
feel very relax → feel very relaxed;
culture things → cultural things)

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GRAMMAR

Error (21 times)
Inappropriate tense: 6 times
(When I’m a child → When I was a child;
I usually go → I usually went;
I haven’t see before → I haven’t seen before;
I have travel → I have travelled;
I have learn → I have learned / learnt;
I living in → I live in)

Inappropriate verb form: 4 times
(I love to reading → I love to read / I love reading;
I seeing → I’m seeing;
I would like to go travel → I like to go travel;
when travel → when travelling)

Inappropriate article: 3 times
(the Chinese Educations → Chinese Educations;
watch the movie → watch a movie;
many Chinese culture → the Chinese culture)

Plural/ Singular form of nouns: 2 times
(some method → some methods;
free times → free time)

Causative verbs: 2 times
(let them to learn → let me learn;
let me to relax → let me relax)

Subject-verb agreement: 3 times
(it’s let me → it lets me;
It’s made me think → it makes me think;
it’s make me feel → it makes me feel;)

Missing verb: 1 time

(I would like to ^ hiking → I would like to go hiking)

Complex verb group (1 time)
Present Continuous: 1 time (I’m reading)

Subordinate clause (16 times)
Adverbial clause: 13 times
Relative clause: 3 times

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PRONUNCIATION

Consonant error: 12 times

think, method, something, reading, books, relax, artworks, usually, wide, haven’t, Hong Kong, traditional

Vowel error: 5 times

method, daily, enjoy, wide, traditional

Syllable stress error: 2 times

method, traditional

Sentence stress error: 1 time

they don’t know

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