pair and small group work is infrequently welcomed in english as a foreign language (efl) classes under the assumption that students tend to use their first language (l1), which is considered detrimental to learning the new language. from sociocultural perspective, however, students’ first language is claimed to play the role of an important psychological tool and can facilitate the learning pr...

The main objective of this work is to develop a pair of Lommel matrix functions suggested by the hypergeometric matrix functions and some of their properties are studied. Some properties of the hypergeometric and Bessel matrix functions are obtained.

Since 2008, we have introduced a pair approach in the university's computer literacy education with the aim of establishing the pair work, which is effective in addressing computer literacy gap. The previous report focused on the pair learning effect from the amount of utterances, and it revealed that paired cooperative problem solving improved the overall task achievement level and suggested t...

Pair and small group work is infrequently welcomed in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classes under the assumption that students tend to use their first language (L1), which is considered detrimental to learning the new language. From sociocultural perspective, however, students’ first language is claimed to play the role of an important psychological tool and can facilitate the learning pr...

Although there is robust research on vocabulary learning strategies (VLSs), little known about the that learners use in pair work. Therefore, this study examines VLSs employed by 40 Saudi undergraduate students whilst working tasks. This also investigates whether a relationship between using certain and type of task undertaken. Two tasks were used: reading comprehension with multiple-choice que...