Kevin McManus

Winter 1988, Conor Doyle returns from London to his native village of Ballinastrad in Western Ireland. He is reunited with his old friends, Darragh and Sarah. He dreams of finding a reason to stay. However the dream is shattered and a nightmare begins when he is faced with a dilemma, a terrible crime is confessed to him. Should he tell the police or keep the secret? As the Garda search for the prime suspect, Conor is haunted by his actions. A captivating Irish crime story of jealousy and betrayal.

The Whole of the Moon

Graeme Porte

Doing Replication Research in Applied Linguistics is the only book available to specifically discuss the applied aspects of how to carry out replication studies in Applied Linguistics. This text takes the reader from seeking out a suitable study for replication, through deciding on the most valuable form of replication approach, to its execution, discussion, and writing up for publication. A step-by-step decision-making approach to the activities guides the reader through the replication research process from the initial search for a target study to replicate, through the setting up, execution, analysis, and dissemination of the finished work.

Doing Replication Research in Applied Linguistics

Thirty years on from the events of "The Whole of the Moon" in the village of Ballinastrad in Western Ireland, Conor Doyle is still haunted by the ghosts from his past. Richard Morgan a retired movie director has bought and renovated Dunmadden Manor house on the outskirts of the village. Richard's son James and Conor's daughter Grainne are making plans for a Christmas wedding. However tensions are burning high in the area with the arrival of three individuals that will change forever the lives of Conor Doyle and Richard Morgan. Murder returns to Ballinastrad Under the Red Winter Sky.

Under the Red Winter Sky

Six sigma levels of quality cannot be achieved by simply asking people to be careful. How do restaurant, energy, and aviation employees achieve very low error rates on a consistent basis, while others who do less mistake prone work make significantly more errors each day? What best practices are used to sustain levels of procedure compliance near or at 100%? This book gives you over 100 best practices and strategies to help you better 'mistake proof' your workplace by stopping daily goofs for good.

How to Stop Daily Goofs for Good

Error Proof

Crosslinguistic Influence and Second Language Learning provides a comprehensive overview of what is currently known about prior language knowledge and experience in second language learning. Three bodies of research are critically reviewed to achieve this goal: (i) theories of language learning that attribute critical roles to prior experience in explaining second language development, (ii) empirical studies of second language learning that have investigated roles for crosslinguistic influence, and (iii) instructional studies that have supported second language learning by addressing the negative effects of crosslinguistic influence. Using this foundation, new research directions and theorization in the field of second language acquisition are proposed. This book will serve as an excellent resource for students and scholars with interests in (instructed) second language learning, applied linguistics, cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, and language education.

Crosslinguistic Influence and Second Language Learning

Rosamond Mitchell

Nicole Tracy-Ventura

Anglophone students abroad: Identity, social relationships and language learning presents the findings of a major study of British students of French and Spanish undertaking residence abroad. The new dataset presented here provides both quantitative and qualitative information on language learning, social networking and integration and identity development during residence abroad. The book tracks in detail the language development of participants and relates this systematically to individual participants’ social and linguistic experiences and evolving relationship. It shows that language learning is increasingly dependent on students’ own agency and skill and the negotiation of identity in multilingual and lingua franca environments.

Identity, Social Relationships, and Language Learning

Anglophone Students Abroad

In Western Ireland in 1979, Hazel Devereaux, a student of Trinity College in Dublin, goes missing while working at a summer job. Six months later her body is discovered in a shallow grave. A line from a poem by Edgar Allan Poe entitled "A Paean" is discovered in an envelope at the house Hazel was renting. Could this be a calling card of the murderer?Thirty years later, Detective Ray Logue discovers that a series of murders in Boston appear to be connected to the killings in 1979. Each victim also received a line from the poem by Edgar Allan Poe delivered to their homes. It becomes evident that a serial killer is at work and has claimed seven lives so far.The murderer kills two victims every ten years, always on a year ending in nine and always on the same dates in June and December. If he follows the same pattern, he will kill again in less than a fortnight. Ray Logue is dispatched to Boston to work alongside Detective Olivia Callaghan and Inspector Sam Harper to discover the identity of the murderer and to stop him before he strikes again. Logue's 'bull in a china shop' policing method brings him into conflict with Sam Harper's more calculated and measured approach. As a result, trying to work together becomes almost as challenging as catching the serial killer. But catch a killer they must.

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