Bilingualism: Validation Of "Avicenne's Elal"
- Conditions
- Language
- Interventions
- Other: NEEL testOther: ELAL testOther: Interview
- Registration Number
- NCT01331057
- Lead Sponsor
- Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
- 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
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 125
- Age : four to six years old
- SCOLARISATION : nursery school
- One language in the family house: tamil, Arabic, or SONINKE
- first class of elementary school
- two mother tongues in the family
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description 2: Algerian ELAL test Children aged of four to six years old, in the nursery school and if their first language is unique : arabic. 2: Algerian NEEL test Children aged of four to six years old, in the nursery school and if their first language is unique : arabic. 1:Sri Lankais Interview Children aged of four to six years old, in the nursery school and if their first language is unique : tamil. 2: Algerian Interview Children aged of four to six years old, in the nursery school and if their first language is unique : arabic. 3: Mali Interview Children aged of four to six years old, in the nursery school and if their first language is unique : SONINKE. 3: Mali ELAL test Children aged of four to six years old, in the nursery school and if their first language is unique : SONINKE. 1:Sri Lankais NEEL test Children aged of four to six years old, in the nursery school and if their first language is unique : tamil. 1:Sri Lankais ELAL test Children aged of four to six years old, in the nursery school and if their first language is unique : tamil. 3: Mali NEEL test Children aged of four to six years old, in the nursery school and if their first language is unique : SONINKE.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Validation of an instrument of the first language assessment. at 54 months Validation of "avicenne's ELAL": instrument of mother tongue assessment
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Impact of familial and transcultural factors at 54 months impact of familial and transcultural factors on early bilingualism in migrants' children born in france
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Dr Dalila REZZOUG
🇫🇷Bobigny, Seine Saint-Denis, France