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The trend of acquiring English as a Foreign Language (EFL) through Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) has encouraged different educational institutions to develop strategic plans and directions for its onsite implementation and evaluation in order to promote the quality of instruction, enhance student achievement, and better inform and promote society. This paper focuses on the challenge of creating a CALL training program for English faculty members at a major university in Saudi Arabia. The goal of the program was to introduce CALL to English teachers and evaluate its effectiveness on their attitudes towards the integration of technology in their classes. A group of English teachers (n = 30) who were involved in teaching advanced level classes participated in a multiple-phase training program for seven weeks. The analysis of the data from a survey and a semi-structured interview revealed that the participating teachers developed positive beliefs towards the use of CALL in their classes. Although a majority of teachers believed that the skilled use and integration of CALL could lead to more effective language teaching, they reported that lack of appropriate technical, financial, and training supports could be the factors that inhibit the effective implementation of CALL in EFL classes. In the end, several implications of the findings for English language institutes, program administrators, and English teachers at Saudi universities were discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The electron pair is a central object in chemist's view of the chemical bond. The definition and description of the electron pair in the position space is a complex problem within the quantum chemistry. Several different possibilities of how to accomplish this task, i.e., how to describe the localizability of an electron and electron pair, are given in a historical survey. The derivation of the electron localizability indicator (ELI) is presented and the application of ELI for the bonding analysis is examined for few systems. The importance of the ELI-q describing the singlet-coupled electron pairs and its connection to Lewis idea of bonding is highlighted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]