Contemporary Education and Teaching Research 2737-4203 2737-4335 BONI FUTURE DIGITAL PUBLISHING CO.,LIMITED https://ojs.bonfuturepress.com/index.php/CETR/article/view/2098 7 10 2026 2026-10-30 The Crucial Role of Recursion Complexity in the Pedagogical AI Construction Jun Lai Based on psycholinguistic and cognitive theories of recursive structures, the current research investigates the core differences between human recursive thought and large language models’ recursive text generation. The present paper focuses on the cognitive processing and acquisition preferences of recursive syntax. Previous studies on education in the artificial intelligence era mostly discussed the application effects or ethical risks. However, there remains a gap in the cognitive mechanisms of processing the underlying syntactical structures, which are crucial for both human languages and computational language. The current paper proposes that recursion is a core psychological tool for mediating high-level cognitive thoughts, instead of merely a syntactical structure. Furthermore, it probes into the cognitive constraints, processing strategies and obstacles to acquisition. In addition, it provides pedagogical suggestions for protecting learners’ recursive thinking abilities. recursion,language thoughts,pedagogy,educational strategies,artificial intelligence,syntax 10.61360/BoniCETR262020981005

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