this study was intended first to categorize the l2 learners in terms of their learning style preferences and second to investigate if their learning preferences are related to lexical inferencing. moreover, strategies used for lexical inferencing and text related issues of text density and parts of speech were studied to determine their moderating effects and the best predictors of lexical infe...

this study was an attempt to shed light on the relationship between perceptual learning styles and perceptual teaching styles of iranian efl learners and teachers. it further investigated the relationship between perceptual learning style and the age, gender, and proficiency of iranian efl learners. a total of 112 students and 23 teachers participated in this study. the data was collected using...

development of innovation and organizational learning in order to gain a sustainable competitive advantage and improve organizational performance needs appropriate circumstances under which management leadership styles remain an important factor. therefore, this study aimed to analyze the impact of leadership styles on organizational performance through innovation and learning that was conducte...

introduction. several factors may influence teaching – learning ptocess. one of them is individual learning style. teacher must consider students’ learning style to enhance their academic performance. the aim of this survey was determiuation the learning style (based on the kolb experiential learning theory) among medical students of qazvin medical faculty. methods. this is a descriptive study ...

Learning the global hand orientation from 2D monocular images is a challenging task, as the projected hand shape is affected by a number of variations. These include inter-person hand shape and size variations, intra-person pose and style variations and self-occlusion due to varying hand orientation. Given a hand orientation dataset containing these variations, a single regressor proves to be l...

many researchers have investigated different aspects of learning styles. nevertheless, few studies have considered interactions between the notions of learning styles and “good language learners’” achievement. the present study aimed at exploring dominant learning style preferences by senior high-school students and comparing their preferences with those by “good language learners”. to this goa...

In this paper an attempt is made to automatically recognize speaker’s accent among regional Swiss French accents from four regions of Switzerland. To achieve this goal a syllable-based classification framework is implemented using prosodic features extracted from the speech signal. Since, among these regional accents, the variations in speech mainly originate from the speaking style, i.e., diff...