Language Learning and Language Experience

November 10, 2025 updated by: Montclair State University

Language Experience and Language Learning

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if text can support children in learning new verbs in healthy children ages three through six. The main questions it aims to answer are:

Does text support help children learn new verbs? Does a child's relative benefit from text support vary according to their literacy skills?

Participants will

  • Watch videos of actions and hear novel words
  • Name alphabet sounds to determine their literacy skills

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

170

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United States
    • New Jersey
      • Bloomfield, New Jersey, United States, 07003
        • Online Asynchronous

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Child

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Primarily exposed to English
  • Typical development
  • Hearing and vision within normal limits or corrected to be so

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
No Intervention: Verb learning with only visual and auditory support
This is "gold standard" learning scenario for young children.
Experimental: Verb learning with auditory, visual, and text support
Participants receive the added support of text to determine if this additional support helps them learn novel words with higher accuracy.
Behavioral: Orthographic facilitation
Half of participants will receive orthographic support (text support) while learning new verbs. The investigators will compare learning with and without text support to determine if this aids verb learning.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Accuracy
Time Frame: 15 minutes
The investigators will measure accuracy in an identification task with a pointing response.
15 minutes

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Literacy as a Mediator
Time Frame: 15 minutes
The investigators will compare orthographic facilitation across literacy measures to determine if/how literacy mediates how much of an effect text support offers.
15 minutes

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Montclair State University

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Grace Clark, PhD, Montclair State University

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

October 31, 2024

Primary Completion (Actual)

August 30, 2025

Study Completion (Actual)

August 30, 2025

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

October 3, 2024

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

October 15, 2024

First Posted (Actual)

October 16, 2024

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

November 12, 2025

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

November 10, 2025

Last Verified

November 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Other Study ID Numbers

  • IRB-FY24-25-3948

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

YES

IPD Plan Description

Deidentified data will be sent upon request.

IPD Sharing Supporting Information Type

  • STUDY_PROTOCOL
  • ANALYTIC_CODE
  • CSR

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.

No

This information was retrieved directly from the website clinicaltrials.gov without any changes. If you have any requests to change, remove or update your study details, please contact register@clinicaltrials.gov. As soon as a change is implemented on clinicaltrials.gov, this will be updated automatically on our website as well.

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