In the present study, the author investigated the role of thinking styles in university students' preferences for teaching styles and their conceptions of effective teachers. Students (121 men and 134 women) from the University of Hong Kong responded to 3 self-report tests: the Thinking Styles Inventory-Revised (R. J. Sternberg, R. K. Wagner, & L-F. Zhang, 2003), the Preferred Thinking Styles i...

The Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ; Martin et al., 2003) is one of the most frequently used questionnaires in humor research and has been adapted to several languages. The HSQ measures four humor styles (affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive, and self-defeating), which should be adaptive or potentially maladaptive to psychosocial well-being. The present study analyzes the internal consistenc...

Learning styles are considered as an important factor in education, however, often students have to learn from material or in courses which do not support their learning styles. A challenge in the area of adaptivity is not only to provide learners with courses that fit the students’ learning styles but can also veer towards supporting students to learn in courses that does not match their learn...

This paper presents an approach to realizing various speaking styles and emotional expressions using a model interpolation technique in HMM-based speech synthesis. In the approach, we synthesize speech with an intermediate speaking style between representative speaking styles from a model obtained by interpolating representative style models. We chose three styles, “reading,” “joyful,” and “sad...

in the opinion of many specialists and teachers, there is lack of enough attention to the needs of the students and their learning styles in the arabic language curriculum. learning styles are important factors in the success of teaching. this study aimed at determining the learning styles of arabic language and literature students in iranian universities. the method of study is survey, and the...