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E: Examiner

S: Student

E: Now I'd like to ask you a few questions about yourself. Are you a student? 

S: Yes, I’m student and studying in EdU and my major is Special, Special Education. 

 

E: What will you do with your degree after you’ve finished? 

S: I think I will be teacher after I finished the degree. Before I study the degree, I have study the Early Childhood Education. So, I think I will be the Early Childhood teacher when I finish my degree programme. 

 

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

S: When my free time, I like to go shopping with my friend. When we shopping, we can go to have a tea or lunch, so we can have some talk and know, know each other more, or we are going … we like going to take some beautiful photos so we can post on the Instagram or Facebook, yeah. 

 

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

S: I think most of the free time I will spending outdoor because when … outdoor we have … we can go more place such as hiking or some place like ... at outdoorwe can take more beautiful pictures. 

 

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

S: When I’m child, I remember that my mother and fathers always take … took me to the park. So, I'm playing in the park with my friend and I remember that I like playing with a dog, that is my neighbour. So, I always go to park when I’m child. 

 

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

S: I think this weekend I will stay at home because now go outside is not convenient. And so, I think I prefer stay at home watching video, Netflix or YouTube. 

 

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

S: I very like travel. When I have summertime, I would always travel with my friend. I remember that last summer, I go to Taiwan with my friend. There have many food that I was eat. And also, I enjoy travel with my friend because we can play overnight. And my mother and father would not distract me. 

 

E: When tourists come to your country, where do they like to go? 

S: I think they would like to go Tsim Sha Tsui because there … the view is very beautiful, and they can took many photo on there ... 

 

E: Is traveling abroad popular in your country? 

S: I think it is popular because …  

 

E: That’s okay. Where would you like to go to travel to in the future? 

S: In the future, I would want to go to Thailand because I think the weather is very good for me to swimming and also I think the cost in there is not expensive, so I can pay it. 

General Descriptions:

FLUENCY AND COHERENCE

General description 

 

Repetition: 2 times 

 

Self-correction: 3 times 

 

Discourse markers (12 times) 

I think: 9 times 

And also: 2 times 

Yes: 1 time 

 

Yeah: 1 time (Filler) 

 

Connectives (32 times) 

And: 9 times 

So: 7 times 

Because: 6 times 

When: 5 times 

Or: 4 times 

Before: 1 time 

 

Average length of response: 

Total duration: 204.28s ÷ 10 responses = 20.43s/response 

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LEXICAL RESOURCE

General Description 

Less common words: no less common word is identified. 

Paraphrase: no paraphrase is coded. 

Idiomatic expressions: no idiomatic expression is identified. 

Collocations: 2 collocations are identified (take photos; take pictures). 

Appropriacy of the words used: 15 inappropriate uses of words are coded. 

Inappropriate collocations: 8 times  
(when my free time → In my free time;  
know each other more → get to know each other more;  
at outdoor → outdoor;  
go^ more place → go to more places;  
have summertime → have time in summer;  
go^ Tsim Sha Tsui → go to Tsim Sha Tsui; 
took many photo on there → take many photos there;  
cost in there → cost there) 

Inappropriate word choice: 5 times  
(a dog, that is my neighbour → a dog, that belonged to my neighbour;  
many food → a lot of;  
very like → I really/ very much like;  
cost … is not expensive, so I can pay it → cost … is not high, so I can afford it) 

Inappropriate word form: 1 time (spending outdoor → spending outdoors) 

Meaning unclear: 1 time (my mother and father would not distract me

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GRAMMAR

General Description 

Error (36 times) 

Inappropriate verb tense: 11 times  

(Before I study the degree, I have → Before I studies the degree, I had;  
When I’m child; I’m playing → When I was a child, I was playing;  
like playing → I liked playing;  
always go → always went;  
when I’m child → when I was a child;  
go to Taiwan → I went to Taiwan;  
enjoy … because we can → I enjoyed … because we could;  
can took → can take) 

Inappropriate verb form: 11 times  
(after I ^finished → after I have finished;  
I have study → I had studied;  
When we ^shopping → When we go shopping;  
will spending → will spend;  
go outside is → going outside is;  
prefer ^stay → prefer to stay;  
like ^travel → like to travel / like travelling;  
there have → there was;  
was eat → I ate;  
enjoy travel with → enjoy travelling with;  
to swimming → to swim) 

Singular/ plural noun form: 5 times  
(some talk → some talks;  
more place → more places;  
some place → some places;  
my mother and fathers → my mother and father;  
many photo → many photos) 

Missing article: 4 times  
(I’m ^student → I’m a student;  
I’m ^child → I was a child;  
go to ^park → go to the park;  
I’m ^child → I was a child) 

Inappropriate article: 2 times  
(the Early Childhood teacher → an Early Childhood teacher;  
go to the park → go to a park) 

Missing object: 1 time (post^ on → post them on) 

Redundant article: 2 times 

Complex verb group (1 time) 

Present continuous 

Subordinate clause (25 times) 

Adverbial clause: 11 times 

Noun clause: 12 times 

Relative clause: 2 times 

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PRONUNCIATION

General description 

 

Consonant error: 38 times (studentthink; free; lunchknow; most; place; child; always; playing; friend; prefer; Netflixtravel; play; there; overnight) 

 

Vowel error: 1 time (Taiwan) 

 

Syllable stress error: 2 times (convenient; overnight) 

 

Sentence stress error: not coded 

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