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CompletedNCT01331057BILINGUISMEUpdated Jun 15, 2021

Bilingualism: Validation Of "Avicenne's Elal"

An observational study in Language, sponsored by Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris. Completed at 1 site in France. Open to participants aged 5 Years to 6 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2021-06-15.

Sponsored by Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris · Observational

Study type
Observational
Model
Other
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrollment
125
Ages
5 Years to 6 Years
Sex
All
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Study 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.

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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
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Conditions studied

  • Language

Keywords

  • Bilingualism
  • Language
  • Evaluation transcultural
  • Intra Familial Relationship
  • Transmissions mother
  • Tongue french
  • Language tamil
  • Language arabic
  • Language soninke
  • Language cultural
  • Affiliations crossbreeding
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In context

Lead sponsor

Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris is the lead sponsor of 3,505 studies on the registry; 1,006 are open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
5 Years to 6 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes
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

Inclusion criteria

  • Age : four to six years old
  • SCOLARISATION : nursery school
  • One language in the family house: tamil, Arabic, or SONINKE

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • first class of elementary school
  • two mother tongues in the family
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Study design

Observational model
Other
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrollment
125 participants (actual)

Groups and cohorts

  • 1:Sri Lankais

    Children aged of four to six years old, in the nursery school and if their first language is unique : tamil.

    Other: NEEL test · Other: ELAL test · Other: Interview

  • 2: Algerian

    Children aged of four to six years old, in the nursery school and if their first language is unique : arabic.

    Other: NEEL test · Other: ELAL test · Other: Interview

  • 3: Mali

    Children aged of four to six years old, in the nursery school and if their first language is unique : SONINKE.

    Other: NEEL test · Other: ELAL test · Other: Interview

Interventions

  • OtherNEEL test

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

  • OtherELAL test

    An assessment of mother tongue with the ELAL of AVICENNE

  • OtherInterview

    For parents of children include in the study: A semi -structured interview

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Validation of an instrument of the first language assessment.

    Validation of "avicenne's ELAL": instrument of mother tongue assessment

    Time frame: at 54 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. Impact of familial and transcultural factors

    impact of familial and transcultural factors on early bilingualism in migrants' children born in france

    Time frame: at 54 months

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Study locations

1 site
  • Dr Dalila REZZOUG
    Bobigny, Seine Saint-Denis 93000, France
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jun 15, 2021, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT01331057
Lead sponsor
Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Apr 7, 2011
Start date
Jun 2011
Primary completion
Dec 2015
Completion
Dec 2015
Last update
Jun 15, 2021

Study contacts

Dalila REZZOUG, MD
principal investigator · Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
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