 Hello everyone, in this video, I'll be talking about how do we write the implication of the study in your research paper or even your dissertation. Now first of all, we need to understand what are research implications. As the name suggests, implication it means the impact of your findings, whether to the policy makers, to the practice, to the theory, or even anyone that are relevant in your scope of the study. So basically it's answering how will your research affect the targeted community or area of study. So these are implications. But why do we need this section in the first place? Now implication means you are kind of like doing a reflection of what you set out to study in the first place. It's like you recall what you have promised to achieve in your adeptive, what you have found, and whether or not this has changed over your course of investigating or during your period of researching this area of study. So it's like re-examining everything and it's always good to re-look at your significance of the study. Whatever you have promised there, all the significance that you have mentioned, whether or not it has been achieved, whether or not you have a change of perspective towards the significance that you have mentioned. So there are two main types of implication. One is called practical implication. The other one is theoretical implication. I think you can guess even from the name itself. These are the two main branches of implication. Although some people may also divide theoretical to a methodological implication where you talk about focusing on the methodology that you use in your study. But it could also go under theoretical implications. So for practical implication, it means the direct impact of your findings to the related practices or even to the relevant parties like stakeholders or policy makers, teachers, your target group and all that practitioners, things like that. One example would be if you are studying how method A can improve teaching or learning. So your practical implication would be whether your findings has informed people on how this method could be useful for the teacher. So you are giving a practical implication to the teachers or the teaching practices. So for practical implication, there are a lot you can mention because based on your findings, how your findings have informed certain aspect of the variables to the people that you are investigating. For example, if you are talking about HR practitioners, then whether or not your findings could inform them to make better decision in recruiting, for example. If you are talking about scientific discovery, scientific research, then how practical it is in formulating new medical solution, for example. These are more practical implications so you have to relate to the findings and then mention the impact of those findings in terms of the practical sets. As for theoretical implication, it's the contribution or the impact on the theory itself. So this could come from additional variables or construct that you added to the original theory or even what you discovered from the limitation of your study. For example, you added a new variable on the theory A so that it could cover a wider perspective. So you have to mention that the findings from your study actually inform people about how this theoretical framework could be improved or this theory could have looked into this area based on what you have found out from your study. So it's like what your studies have contributed to the understanding of this framework or even the theoretical foundation that you have chosen. Of course, you are not trying to change the theory but you're suggesting people to look into this aspect after you have done it in your study. So basically, for theoretical implication is your contribution to the theoretical part of your study. It could also be your way of merging certain theories so these are the things that you can include under theoretical implication. So how do you write implications? Normally it's written as an independent part of a research paper or even dissertation. It means you have a specific section for this. But most people will also merge it with future research. For example, implication for future research or you can say implication of the study and recommendation for the future research thing like that. But either way, whether you combine or merge, it should begin with what you found in your study which is different from what was found in previous studies and then discuss the implication in terms of practice or theories. So this is a sample of practical implication as you can see from the first line, there are a few possibilities of this explicit focus can be manifested in instruction. Explicit focus here could be what was mentioned earlier about the study's focus and manifested in instruction means how it can contribute to the understanding of teaching or instruction. So in this case, instructors and this is specific for instructors for teachers on how to improve their classroom practices. So this is very practical because you are relating your outcome with something which is very practical to the teachers. Another one is theoretical implication where you are talking about how it contributes to the theory. In this sample of theoretical implication, you can see how this study tried to show the difference between what was done in the previous and this study by looking at the framework that was chosen which is the problem solving framework. It means it's trying to contribute to the understanding of the framework or the theory chosen. So for theoretical implication, it's always good to re-look at the significance of the study and see whether those have been achieved and related to your findings. Most importantly in the implication it shows the impact of the study actually. So you don't have to go a lot of implication because if too many implication, it sounds too good to be true so you might want to highlight the more dominant one from your findings. If you notice that your findings for objective 1 is strong so you might want to highlight how your findings from this objective could contribute in terms of the impact on either practice or the theory because usually implication would give some ideas on what to recommend for future research so it's quite connected in that way. So I hope this video is useful for you in understanding how implications are written. If you still have problems, please feel free to ask me. And what most importantly is to look at what other people have written for their implication part and learn from those but the most important thing as like I told you, imagine that implication is the part for you to market your research or to sell your research in a way so how much have you contributed to the area of study whether in terms of practice or theory. Thank you very much.