Do you think your match is made in heaven? Teaching styles/learning styles match and mismatch revisited

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to explore the impact of teaching and learning style preferences and their match or mismatch on learners’ achievement. The sample consisted of 310 English Major Students and four lecturers from the Foreign Languages Faculty of Azad University, Iran. The Index of Learning Styles was used together with observations and interviews to collect data. The results of the study revealed that matching teaching and learning styles in EFL classes can help improve students’ achievement.