Phrases that might be helpful to support findings

While writing chapter 5, I find it difficult to produce sentences that 'sound' academic. Due to this, I analysed few theses to help me find the 'right' expressions to support my findings. Some of the phrases that I gathered from the theses were typed below. Hope this helps.

General Phrases
o the fact that in this study different kinds of contextual clues were relied on
lends support for constructionist hypothesis (Graesser, Singer & Trabasso, 1994) which claims that ...
o The finding supported a few studies for instance ...
o The above finding supported Nation’s and Scholfield’s...
o Moreover, the advantage of a dictionary was corroborated in a study of 293 Japanese EFL university students by Luppescu and Day (1993)...
o Such a finding about how the students approach learning L2 vocabulary supported Sanaoui’s (1995)...
o Some encouraging findings on this issue could be found in some 1960s research.
o Kachroo (1962) finds that ...
o Crothers and Suppes (1967) discover ..
o Similarly, Lado, Baldwin and Lobo (1967) present...
o Tinkham (1993), like many other researchers, finds that..
o Still in an interesting experiment by Nagy, McClure, and Mir (1997) state...
o There are a few studies which could be referred to clarify the situation. A thought could be given to a study done by Pillai (2004)...
o To understand such a phenomenon, a study done by Nation and Coady (1988) should be scrutinized...
o Several studies proved that rehearsal has some benefits to students’ vocabulary learning. Teh (2004) studied three conditions...
o This view was supported by research done by Wang et al (1993)...
o Similar results can be found in Seibert (1927, 1930)...
o Their progress was parallel with the one discussed by Henriksen (1999)...
o In conclusion, it could be safely proclaimed that the students’ breadth of vocabulary knowledge did develop although slow ...
o The findings above initiate some discussions ...
o This is similar to White (2008)’s finding but contrary to Gilligan (1989)...
o This finding was also consistent in this study ...
o This study confirmed the findings of the study carried ...
o The knowing events identified in this study were similar to the studies of ...
o The data in this study was similar to the data collected by ...
o This assumption is in common with Perry’s ...
o This organisational learning process support the theory provided by ….and concurred the study by ...
o The Malaysian aviation industry met Senge’s framework of learning in the five key disciplines ...
o The industry learning process agrees with Dogson (1993)...
o The…conforms to the organisational learning mechanism as discussed by Arvin...
o The process was also similar ...
o The findings from the study resembles findings from Minerva’s (2003) study...
o The study contradicts Hoang findings but concurred with the study conducted by

Implications for Theory or Practice

The acquisition process can also be explained by Bandura’s (1986) Social Learning Theory....
The research contributed to the study by ...on the …
The study addresses the literature gaps left by organisation learning practitioners in Duncan and Weiss (1989)...
In terms of theoretical implications, the study has provided ...
The findings of the study to a certain extent concurred with the formal learning model of Marsick

Writing Chapter 5

I started writing Chapter 5 since yesterday. In this chapter, I need to match the finding of my study with previous studies. It was a slow process for me because I need to find findings that can support my finding to all the research questions and hypotheses I have in my study. Moreover, if my finding contradict to previous studies, it therefore requires me to state why such happens. In this chapter, relevant theories need to also be discussed. This is another challenge. One analogy best fit to explain my situation is like I'm walking in the bushes. Slowly and carefully. In the end, I know I need to get out from there...

The spirit of writing needs to be consistent for I need to review Chapter 1-3 after I've done with Chapter 5. For that, I hope that Allah can keep my motivation alive because at the moment they are too many challenges. For the past 2 weeks I didn't send my youngest to the kindy because of ear problem. I send my eldest back and forth to school, wake-up all the kids, iron my husband's attire every morning, take the two kids to bath, then send again the eldest to KAFA. Due to this busy schedule, I remembered that I forgot to lock the door of my house one day. So these days writing was not really comfortable for me. However, I cannot give that as an excuse. Anyway, back to the story about my youngest staying at home, as a consequence of that, I often cook..this leads to another thing- a cooking blog. Errmm..if you're interested to look at the recipes I cooked these days, check this link http://maklangrecipesgalore.blogspot.com/...