Global Psychology and Language Research Association (GPLRA): GRDS International Conference Summary held at Dubai, UAE, February 2018

CONFERENCE SUMMARY

GLOBAL PSYCHOLOGY AND LANGUAGE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (GPLRA)

4th ICPLR 2018 - International Conference on Psychology & Language Research (UAE)

Flora Grand Hotel, Near Al Rigga Metro Station, Deira, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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 Humanities and Social Science theme, which took place on 19-Feb-2018 to 20-Feb- 2018 at Flora Grand Hotel, Near Al Rigga Metro Station, Deira, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.The event brought together around 40 Participants from Algeria, Iran, France, Pakistan, Estonia to review and discuss the latest challenges of Language and Psychology Issues. 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 Honorable Keynote speaker highlighting the main context on Language Issues.

The main aim of this conference was:

To discuss latest challenges/researches being faced by the Society regarding Social Issues
Generating academic and professional relationships
Boosting morale and confidence of researchers on an international platform
Networking among the participants
Providing a holistic experience of academic tourism

The conference is structured in such a way that each participant gets the most from the conference and can cherish the time and efforts that has been invested to attend the conference. The details of this conference are below:-

Session 1: Welcome and opening Speech

In the Opening of the conference, Our Honourable Keynote speaker enlightened the participants with their speech highlighting the problem emerging all around the world. Our first Keynote speaker delivered speech on Cultural Manifestation through Reflective Writing. Following is the glimpse of the conference:-

Asli Hassan

Head of Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT), The Petroleum Institute, University & Research Center, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Followed by the stupendous speech about Personal Development-An Educational Journey Leading to Empowerment & Success by second Keynote of the conference.

Seetha Sagaran

Personal Development Trainer | Motivational Speaker | Lifestyle Consultant| Dubai, UAE

Highlighted the context related to Language and Psychology issue emerging all around the world and help us to understand the society in a better way.

Session 2: Team Building Activity

In order to break the ice between the participants and make them know each other in a better way GRDS conducts a team building activity in every conference. This helps the participants to gel with each other and also serves the purpose of discussing topics which have social, cultural, economic, political, etc importance and possible measures to eradicate such problems. Diversity is the key element of this activity because of which participants get to know about issues of other countries. Participants actively participated and shared ideas about the issues and got a chance for networking and building long term relationships. This session helped participants to interact with each other and after this we moved towards our Technical session 3, in which outstanding speeches on outstanding topics were discussed and questions from audience were addressed :-

Session 3: Technical Session

In this technical session participants from all around the globe presented their papers related to their research and study. Some of the major issues that were discussed can be outlined as:

1. "Does Displaying Buildings On The Maps Improve GPS Pedestrian Navigation Performance? An EcologicalApproach" Presented by Sylvain Fleury Affiliated to Department of psychology (Cognition, Behavior & Communication Psychology Laboratory),University ofRennes,Rennes, France.

2. "A Review of Naguib Mahfouzs The Beggar Based on Norman Fairclough's Critical Discourse Analysis" Presented by Dr.Abdollah Hosseini Affiliated to Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Literature,Kharazmi University,Tehran, Iran.

3. "Level, Causes And Management Of Exam Stress Among Students Of Department Of Education At Iiui" Presented by Fouzia Ajmal Affiliated to Department of Education, International Islamic University Islamabad,Islamabad Pakistan.

GRDS makes continuous efforts in transforming the lives of people around the world through education, application of research & innovative ideas. 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. This gives immense encouragement to the researchers who have brilliant ideas to exhibit their research work on the International platform. GRDS aims for promoting research and talent of scholars by giving scholarship to 5 selected applicants for each conference.

In each, GRDS International conference, Best paper award is given to best researches. In our conferences, Best paper award is given to the participants with best scholarly paper submitted and presented at the conference. In 4th ICPLR 2018 - International Conference on Psychology & Language Research (UAE), Best Paper Award was given to paper :

Abdel Rahman Mitib Altakhaineh

Assistant Professor, Department of English Language Teacher Education, College of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences,Al Ain University of Science and Technology,Al Ain , UAE