GPLRA

GPLRA
Internatonal Conference

Tuesday 30 May 2017

GRDS International Conference Summary held at Lisbon, Portugal, May 2017

CONFERENCE SUMMARY

Global Psychology and Language Research Association (GPLRA)

13th International Conference on Linguistics and Language Research (ICLLR)&
13th International Conference on Psychology and Behavioural Sciences (ICPBS)
Congress Centre, Tecnico (Universidade de Lisboa), Campus da Alameda, Lisbon, Portugal

This summary captures a two day programme with presentations, panel discussions and interactive dialogue. Global Psychology and Language Research Association (GPLRA) conference is one of best academic event in Psychology and Language theme, which took place on 24th & 25th of May, 2017, at Congress Centre, Tecnico (Universidade de Lisboa), Campus da Alameda, Lisbon, Portugal.The event brought together around 25 Participants from around 12 different countries to review and discuss the latest challenges of Psycholinguistics. Global Psychology and Language Research Association (GPLRA) is known to have valuable networking opportunity and set the stage for further cooperation among the participants of different countries.
The conference began with opening remarks by Honourable Keynote speaker highlighting the main context based on Psycholinguistic.
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The main aim of this conference was:
  •         To discuss latest challenges/researches being faced by the Society regarding Language, Communication gap
  •          Generating academic and professional relationships
  •          Boosting morale and confidence of researchers in an international platform
  •          Networking among the participants
  •          Providing a holistic experience of academic tourism

We would begin with session 1. The details are as below.


Session 1: Welcome and opening Speech


In the Opening of the conferenceOur Honourable Keynote speaker enlightened the participants with their Speech to the conference highlighting the problem emerging all around the world  communication and language.



Rossitsa M. Yalamova
(Associate Professor, Finance at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada)

  Session 2: Technical Session 


In this technical session Participants of Global Psychology and Language Research Association (GPLRA) presented their papers related to their Research and Study. Some of the major issues that were discussed can be outlined as:

1. "Reshaping classrooms and thinking through synchronous video conferencing" Presented by Joshua Lee  Affiliated to English Language Centre, Faculty of Arts and Humanities University of Macau, Macau

2. "Driving stress of drivers on narrowed lane and hard shoulder of motorways" Presented by J. Xing Affiliated to Nippon Expressway Research Institute Company Limited, Japan

3. "Inner speech frequency, content, and functions in a sample of University students" Presented by Alain Morin Affiliated to Department of Psychology, Mount Royal Univesity, Calgary (AB) Canada

 In order to Promote Young Researchers, GRDS International conferences, Provides Young Research Scholarship in the form of full Registration fee waiver to participate in such events.


In each, GRDS International conference, Best paper award is given to best researches. In Global Psychology and Language Research Association (GPLRA)Best paper award is given to the participants with best scholarly paper submitted and presented at the conference. In Global Psychology and Language Research Association (GPLRA) conference, Best Paper Award was given to paper ‘Prejudicial and Stereotypical Attitudes about the Problem of Obesity: An Action Project’ Submitted by Maria Elvira De Caroli Affiliated to Department of Educational Sciences,,University of Catania,Catania, Italy and "Development of the indigenous languages of South Sudan as written languages: Problems and prospects" Submitted by John Myhill Affiliated to Department of English Language and Literature, University of Haifa, Mt. Carmel Haifa, Israel 31905



Maria Elvira De Caroli
(Department of Educational Sciences,,University of Catania,Catania, Italy)



John Myhill
(Department of English Language and Literature, University of Haifa, Mt. Carmel Haifa, Israel 31905)