Questão número 639574

There is no link between performance dissimilarities and language proficiency in the communication between pilots and air traffic controllers.

• A.

  While the high L2 group sounded less accented, more comprehensible and more fluent than the low L2 group, the NS group performed better than both L2 groups in these measures.

• B.

  Undue or long pauses, repetitions and false starts are dysfluencies imperceptible by listeners.

• C.

  Since the NS group members had their fluency affected by additional cognitive demands of high workload conditions, fluency measures may be a good indicator of cognitive overload.

• D.

  Both the amount of retained information and the listeners’ perception of speech are affected by the workload.

• E. High cognitive workload worsens the speech production of low-proficiency L2 speakers.