Hi Everyone, I am studying the impact of culture shock on second language acquisition outcome. The hypothesis of my study was : "Culture shock has a negative effect on the overall second language acquisition of students. Moreover, listening, speaking, reading, and writing aspects of second language acquisition will all be negatively affected."
The results of my study showed that culture shock has a negative impact on overall second language acquisition and speaking,reading and writing aspects. However, there is no effect of culture shock on the listening aspect.
So, how should I write the conclusion of my study? should I write that my hypothesis is rejected or should I write it is partially accepted?
Thank you
Dear Rehan, I suggest you divide your overall hypothesis (1) into their separate, underlying, smaller hypotheses (1.1 speaking, 1.2 writing etc.). By doing so, you can accept, say, 1.1 to 1.3, but will reject 1.4 listening. This will maintain your overall hypothesis and give your paper a clear, logical structure.
Dear Rehan
I would suggest that you restate the interpretation of your hypothesis by saying that from the previous I can conclude that “culture shock has an impact on some aspects of second language acquisition such as...”. Thus, this hypothesis is partially confirmed. However, this hypothesis does not affect another aspect, such as listening, in which we cannot apply such a hypothesis.
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