Executive Function and Language Input: Neurological Insights from French Immersion Learners
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study examines how the consistency of French language input by teachers in immersion classrooms impacts both language acquisition and executive function in elementary students, including those with neurodivergent profiles. A cross-sectional observational study was conducted with 128 students aged 7–9 across five immersion schools in Winnipeg. Participants were grouped based on observed teacher language input consistency. Data included standardized cognitive and language assessments, parent surveys, and teacher evaluations using the BRIEF-2. Students receiving ≥90% French input outperformed peers in vocabulary, working memory, and inhibitory control. Neurodivergent students also demonstrated gains in high-consistency environments, though with greater variance. Findings support the cognitive benefits of immersion fidelity. However, rigid language policies may risk excluding vulnerable learners. The results call for adaptive strategies that combine linguistic consistency with inclusive pedagogy. Consistent French instruction enhances language and cognitive outcomes for diverse learners. Immersion policies must balance fidelity with flexibility to remain equitable and neurologically supportive.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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 it