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