This study investigated learning style preferences among professional translators. The purposes of the study were to (a) find the prevailing learning style among the Iranian professional translators; (b) reveal any significant difference in the translators’ learning style preferences in terms of gender; and (c) find any significant difference between individual learning style and translation competence of the male and female translators. To this end, 110 professional translators from 35 translation centers in three Southern Provinces of Iran (Fars, Hormozgan, and Bushehr) were selected through non-probability sampling. The data pertaining to learning style were collected through an adaptation of Honey and Mumford’s learning style questionnaire, and translation competence was examined through a text that the participants translated. Findings revealed that the translators’ predominant learning style was Reflector, followed by Pragmatist, Activist, and Theorist, although those preferring the Theorist style showed better performance. Furthermore, the findings did not show any significant difference between translators’ gender and learning style preferences. Finally, results of one-way ANOVA revealed that there was a statistically significant difference across the groups in terms of learning style preferences and translators’ translation competence. Some pedagogical implications were also discussed. Manuscript profile

The purpose of this study is to develop a conceptual model of effective factors in corrective feedback among English language learners. This research has a mixed, exploratory and inductive method. The statistical population of this study includes all university teachers and English language teachers in Lamerd who have been selected by chain reference method. In the qualitative Phase, the sampling method was purposeful and snowball sampling. And from these teachers, 14 people were purposefully and snowball selected, answered the questionnaire through semi-structured interviews. Also, in the second part of this research, after obtaining the conceptual model of the research, sampling was performed using the Cochran's formula including 384 people in terms of Google Form. The interview questions were entered in MAXQDA 2018 software and analyzed. The conceptual model of the research was then fitted by IBM Amos 24 software. The results also showed that structural rules and types of errors, teacher-related factors, learners-related factors, environmental and educational factors affect correctional feedback by 0.71, 0.87, 0.74 and 0.69, respectively. Manuscript profile