Clinical trial NCT01331057: Bilingualism: Validation Of "Avicenne's Elal"
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
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Language
Keywords: Bilingualism
Language
Evaluation transcultural
Intra Familial Relationship
Transmissions mother
Tongue french
Language tamil
Language arabic
Language soninke
Language cultural
Affiliations crossbreeding
Lead sponsor: Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2011-04-07
Enrollment: 125
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 5
Maximum age (years): 6
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Children are five 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 we defines for the first step of validation: tamil, soninké, Arabic

Brief 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.

Detailed 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

Eligibility criteria: 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

Primary outcomes:
measure: Validation of an instrument of the first language assessment.
timeFrame: at 54 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Impact of familial and transcultural factors
timeFrame: at 54 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Bobigny
country: France
facility: Dr Dalila REZZOUG
state: Seine Saint-Denis
Study officials:
affiliation: Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
name: Dalila REZZOUG, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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