Conversations IntraGender
Conversation Analysis
Each conversation is accompanied by an analysis to give a quick evaluative summation of the students’ performance along with a recommendation of how the students could do better. Various patterns of fluency and dysfluency might be cited if the issue is relevant to the video / transcript.
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Kohei and Shohei
This second same-sex discussion was interesting as both males had high speaking rates 116.2 and 116.7, with no cross-talk pausing. Dysfluency is limited though Kohei had a high level of repetition (38 occurrences) as well as a high level of meaningless syllables 96. There is some unbalance to the discussion with Shohei talking more than twice as long as Kohei, so my recommendations would be that Kohei provide more descriptive responses and stories.
Naoyuki and Sho
Both males have a high speaking rate, 106.5 for Sho, and 112.6 for Naoyuki. Cross-talk pausing is not very high, 19.0 seconds, as well as the percentage of silence, 9.9% though this is 74.8 seconds. Mean length runs are fairly normal 12.6/9.0, and both participants are productive, with Naoyuki having 640 words and Sho having 441 words. Both males have few minimal responses
Naoyuki and Yuma
This conversation is notable insofar that there is an unusually high rate of cross-talk pausing 54.4, which is rather uncommon for males. The overall amount of silence is also extremely high: 136.7 seconds. Yuma has a high rate of use of L1 and a low speaking rate, 71. 4 as compared to Naoyuki’s 118.1 which is more average for this level of proficiency; however, Naoyuki does have a very high rate of repetition and meaningless syllables. Yuma’s monotone does make listening difficult, and this is one issue that should be addressed. More minimal responses in this conversation. Both participants do have a very high number of words, for Naoyuki 475, and for Yuma, 399.
Miya and Ayaka
This is one of the more “silent” discussions with cross-talk pausing being extremely high 202.4 seconds, and the overall amount of silence being 311.2 seconds or 40.6%. Minimal responses almost make up the entire discussions. It seems that both girls had a hard time relating to each other. Ayaka’s silence is 87.2 compared to Miya’s 21.6. Speaking rate is about average 66.0 to Miya’s 86.2. MLPs are long 7.2 seconds.
Naoyuki and Syuhei
This discussion, though it may not be apparent from just watching the video, is somewhat unbalanced, with Shuhei dominating the discussion, having 472 words compared to Naoyuki’s 229. The participants are engaged, as there is only 5.8% silence, and MLRs is average, 9.2, for Shuhei, but Kure’s is fairly low, 5.0. Shuhei does have a high level of repetition 29 as compared to Naoyuki’s 10 occurrences. There is a high level of meaningless syllables for both participants.
Taiki and Takaki
In this discussion, Nishio has a higher speaking rate than Kawabata, 122.7 to 88.4,but both speakers have long MLRs, 12.8 and 13.0. The amount of silence is somewhat high, 13.1% or a 109.3 seconds. The average pause time is also high 5.1 to 4.4. Both speakers were productive, with a high number of words, 406, to Kawabata’s 519. The discussion is animated, and both speakers are engaged. Minimal responses are few.
Yuki and Yuki
There is some unbalance to this discussion with Yuki Oyama having roughly twice as many words that Suzuki-san, 438 to 268. Oyama-san seems to have a higher level of proficiency, showing a 95.2 speaking rate as compared to Suzuki-san’s 70.2. There is a surprising high level of cross talk pausing, 56.5 seconds. The amount of silence for the conversation is moderate, 11.0%, or 82.5 seconds. Oyama-san has a high level of meaningless syllables 33 as compared to Suzuki-san’s, 10. Lexical dysfluency is low, though Oyama-san does use Japanese frequently, 7 occurrences.
Nanase and Yuki
This first same-sex session is interesting in that there were no cross-talk pausing. The discussion had only 23.3 seconds of silence which is a mere 4.1%. Fluency rates for both females was 109.8 for Yuki as compared to Nanase’s 74.3 who also had 355 words, almost 150 more than Yuki’s. There were more minimal responses. The two seemed to enjoy talking. Recommendations would be for both to focus on larger replies.
Mao and Daiki
This same-sex male discussion went smoothly, with only 7.0 seconds of cross-talk pausing, but there was a total amount of 94.4 seconds of silence. Speaking rates are average 70.0 and 69.8. MLRs are also very average, 7.4 and 12.0 and both speakers had roughly the same amount of words, Daiki having 197 and Mao having 166.
Ken and Masaki
In this same-sex discussion, the number of words for both participants is relatively similar 660 for Masaki and 540 for Ken. Speaking rates are unusually high, 146.7 and 155.5 for Ken which reflects a high level of motivation. No cross-talk pausing is noted, and the amount of silence is only 2.6 seconds, thus 0.4%. Masaki does have not syntactic dysfluency in regard to meaningless syllables 100 as compared to 43 for Ken. MLRs are long: 21.6 and 18.3, though Masaki does have a high level of repetition compared to Ken’s 64 to 7 occurrences. Abandoned sentences are noted in this discussion.