GRDS International Conference Summary held at Bali, Indonesia, July 2017

CONFERENCE SUMMARY

GLOBAL PSYCHOLOGY AND LANGUAGE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (GPLRA)

16th International Conference on Linguistics & Language Research (ICLLR) &

16th International Conference on Psychology & Behavioural Sciences (ICPBS)
Ibis Bali Kuta, Jl. Raya Kuta No. 77, 80361 Kuta, Bali, Indonesia

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 13th & 14th of July, 2017, at Ibis Bali Kuta, Jl. Raya Kuta No. 77, 80361 Kuta, Bali, Indonesia.The event brought together around 40 Participants from around 14 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 conference, Our Honourable Keynote speaker enlightened the participants with their Speech to the conference highlighting the problem emerging all around the world in communication and language.

Dwi Astuti Wahyu Nurhayati (Plenary Speaker)

(Department of Lingusitics Descriptive, Postgraduate student,Universitas Sebelas Maret Surakarta,Surakarta, Central Java, Indoensia)

Dwi Astuti Wahyu Nurhayati

(Department of Lingusitics Descriptive, Postgraduate student,Universitas Sebelas Maret Surakarta,Surakarta, Central Java, Indoensia)

  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. "Conceptual Metaphor within Invariant Meaning: The Learning of Phrasal Verbs among Malaysian ESL Learners" Presented by Radika Subramaniam  Affiliated to General Studies Department, Politeknik Sultan Idris Shah, Sg. Air Tawar, Selangor, Malaysia

2. "Are You a Procrastinator? Active or Passive?: Validation of Active Procrastination Scale (Indonesian Version)" Presented by Cynthia Vivian Purwanto Affiliated to Faculty of Psychology,Universitas Surabaya,Surabaya, Indonesia

3. "Exploratory And Confirmatory Factor Analysis Of Academic Motivation Scale (Indonesian Version)" Presented by Lina Natalya Affiliated to Faculty of Psychology,Universitas Surabaya,Surabaya, Indonesia.

 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.Our Young Research Scholars were: 

Ynna Marie C. Halili

(College of Education, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines)

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 ‘Demystifying Silence in Thai EFL Writing Class: A Case Study of Classroom Discourse’ Submitted by Kokitboon Fukham Affiliated to Department of Western Languages and Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences,Mahasarakham University, Thailand 4415.

    Kokitboon Fukham
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Department of Western Languages and Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Mahasarakham 

University, Thailand 4415

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• The conference picture gallery is available here: https://www.facebook.com/pg/gplraconferences/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1772851809671572

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•  Video gallery can be downloaded here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3MBTOb7CF59680aD1QYEQw