Why does reduced cognitive load result in greater fluency in second language speech?

💡 Explanation

Cognitive fluency increases because decreased cognitive load allows attentional resources to be allocated towards higher-level speech planning and monitoring, instead of being consumed by basic linguistic processes. Therefore, fluency is enhanced; rather than directly improving phoneme encoding or grammatical rule generation, attentional resources are freed up.

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