Cognitive Processing and Flexibility Across Bilingual Development Stages in EFL Learners
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Abstract
The present study aimed to examine cognitive process profiles among EFL learners at different stages of bilingual development, exploring how advancement toward bilingualism may be associated with cognitive enhancement, particularly cognitive flexibility and processing patterns. This study also investigated learners' metacognitive evaluations of their performance on an unfamiliar cognitive assessment. The sample consisted of 60 adult EFL learners (30 advanced bilinguals and 30 long-term emerging bilinguals), with equal gender distribution. The data were analyzed using Chi-square and Gamma correlation. Overall, advanced bilinguals demonstrated significantly greater cognitive flexibility and showed preference for analytical, logical reasoning, and reflective problem-solving approaches. Emerging bilinguals demonstrated distinct cognitive flexibility profiles and showed preference for intuitive, exploratory problem-solving approaches. With respect to gender differences, females among advanced bilinguals showed particularly strong inclination toward reflective and logical reasoning styles, while emerging bilingual females demonstrated preference for exploratory approaches. No significant relationship was found between proficiency level and metacognitive evaluation of the assessment. The findings suggest that bilingual development in EFL contexts may be associated with enhanced cognitive flexibility and systematic problem-solving preferences.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.034 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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