Bilingualism: Validation Of "Avicenne's Elal"

Language Clinical Trial

— BILINGUISME  

Official title:

Validation of "AVICENNE's ELAL": Instrument of Mother Tongue Assessment and Impact of Familial and Transcultural Factors on Early Bilingualism in Migrants' Children Born in France

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01331057
• Other study ID #: NI07023
• Status: Completed
• Start date: June 2011
• Est. completion date: December 2015

Study information

• Verified date: June 2021
• Source: Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The primary purpose is the validation of an instrument of the first language assessment. The second purpose is to study the impact of familial and transcultural factors on early bilingualism in migrant children born in France.

Description:

The research aims to validate a language instrument of the first language in migrants' children born in France. For that purpose, the investigators have built an instrument made of three sets of items: comprehension, production and narrative production. Children are elected if: they are four to six years old, in the third class of nursery school and if their first language is unique, and, one of the three languages that the investigators define for the first step of validation: tamil, SONINKE, Arabic. The PROTOCOLE is composed with two parts:

1. For children:

• An assessment for children in French with items extracted from the NEEL test

• An assessment of mother tongue with the ELAL of Avicenne

2. For parents:

• A semi-structured interview.

The data collected are:

General DATA:

• Social and professional categories

• Economical status of parents

• The conditions of living

• Month and year of birth for the child

• The language used during the interview

About the child:

• Age of language AQUISITION

• Languages mastering

• Language environment

• The place among siblings

• SCOLARISATION(DATA about cultural affiliations, representations of transmission, intra-familial relationship

DATA about parental uses and representations of languages:

• Social and economical DATA in the country of birth

• Place of birth, languages

• uses of languages

• representations about languages

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 125
• Est. completion date: December 2015
• Est. primary completion date: December 2015
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 5 Years to 6 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age : four to six years old

• SCOLARISATION : nursery school

• One language in the family house: tamil, Arabic, or SONINKE

Exclusion Criteria:

• first class of elementary school

• two mother tongues in the family

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Language

Intervention

Other:
• NEEL test
An assessment for children in French with items extracted from the NEEL test
• ELAL test
An assessment of mother tongue with the ELAL of AVICENNE
• Interview
For parents of children include in the study: A semi -structured interview

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	Dr Dalila REZZOUG	Bobigny	Seine Saint-Denis

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Validation of an instrument of the first language assessment.	Validation of "avicenne's ELAL": instrument of mother tongue assessment	at 54 months
Secondary	Impact of familial and transcultural factors	impact of familial and transcultural factors on early bilingualism in migrants' children born in france	at 54 months