8.0-8.5 Speaker 2

Task 2

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E: Alright. Now, I'm going to give you a topic. And I'd like you to talk about it for one to two minutes. Before you talk, you'll have one minute to think about what you're going to say and you can make some notes if you wish. You understand?  

S: Yes. 

 

E: The topic I'd like you to talk about is the type of clothing you like to wear. Alright. So first of all, you got one minute to prepare. (After one-minute preparation) All right. Now remember, you've got one to two minutes for this so don't worry if I stop you. I'll tell you when the time is up. Can you start speaking now please? 

S: So I found it very interesting that you chose this specific topic because I really do have a love hate relationship with the entire concept of clothes. My problem comes from the fact that I grew up in Pakistan and so your performance and your … how you presented yourself in society held a very different type of connotation. So there was gender roles and norms surrounding your clothing and how you presented yourself on a very strict spectrum of masculinity and femininity. And me as a person, I do not like to adhere to these type of extremes. And while I do identify as a woman, and I'm a female, I … the way I dress in the way I prefer to dress in my country don't really resonate with the id … the typical ideals of femininity. And so my preference and clothing does run a little bit more androgynous than society would dictate how it should. A bit of it has been influenced by social media. I tend to lean towards comfort wear or fashion wear and I do like to still adhere to the concept of mo, modesty when I'm thinking about how to dress myself. Growing up, I never like to wear dresses or anything above my knee and my mum would be frustrated as to why this little girl doesn't want to wear dress and I'd say, oh, because I feel cold and the truth was, I just wanted to run around in a pair of shorts without having to think about, oh, I have to keep prim and proper and make sure nobody catches me unawares, you know. That did follow me through. And now I'm in my 20s and I still like to tell my mum I don't like to wear dresses and, well, it's gotten better in terms of the relationship dealing with that. I do still see it as a big hindrance to our progress and society because once you present … 

 

E: Thank you. Sorry to interrupt.  

 

General Descriptions:

FLUENCY AND COHERENCE

General Description 

 

Repetition: 1 time 

 

Self-correction: 3 times 

 

Discourse markers (1 time) 

Just: 1 time 

 

You know: 1 time (Fillers) 

Well: 1 time (Fillers) 

 

Connectives (20 times) 

So: 4 times 

And: 12 times 

While: 1 time 

Because: 3 times 

 

Speech rate: 657 words ÷ 121.25s = 5.42 words/second 

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LEXICAL RESOURCE

General Description 

Less common words: 11 less common words are identified (connotation, gender roles and norms, spectrum, masculinity, femininity, adhere, resonate, androgynous, dictate, frustrated, hindrance). 

Paraphrase: paraphrases are coded. 

the type of clothing you like to wear→love hate relationship with the entire concept of clothes 

a very strict spectrum of masculinity and femininity→these type of extremes 

woman→female 

androgynous→the concept of modesty 

Idiomatic expressions: 1 idiomatic expression is identified (prim and proper). 

Collocations: 5 collocations are identified (love/hate relationship, run a little bit more androgynous, lean towards, follow me through, catches me unawares). 

Appropriacy of the words used: No inappropriate use of words is coded. 

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GRAMMAR

General Description 

Error (2 times) 

Singular/ plural form of noun: 1 time  

(these type of extremes → these types of extremes) 

Subject-verb agreement: 1 time  

(there was gender roles and norms → there were gender roles and norms) 

Complex verb group (9 times) 

Emphatic ‘do’: 6 times 

Present prefect passive: 1 time 

Present continuous: 1 time 

Present perfect: 1 time 

Subordinate clause (18 times) 

Noun clause: 11 times  

Adverbial clause: 6 times 

Relative clause: 1 time 

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PRONUNCIATION

General Description 

 

Consonant error: not coded 

 

Vowel error: not coded 

 

Syllable stress error: not coded 

 

Sentence stress error: not coded 

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