Global Psychology and Language Research Association (GPLRA): GRDS International Conference held in Lisbon, Portugal, May 2018

CONFERENCE SUMMARY

GLOBAL PSYCHOLOGY AND LANGUAGE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (GPLRA)

6th ICPLR 2018 - International Conference on Psychology & Language Research (Portugal)

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 the best academic events in Psychology and Language theme, which took place on 24-May- 2018 to 25-May- 2018 at Congress Centre, Tecnico (Universidade de Lisboa), Campus da Alameda, Lisbon, Portugal. The event brought together Participants from countries like Philippines, Poland, Jordan, Thailand, Malaysia, Japan, etc 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 Honorable Keynote speaker enlightened the participants with her speech about Educational Psychology. Our first Keynote speaker delivered the speech. Following is the glimpse of the conference:-

Marion Hopfgartner

(Speaker, Educationalist, and Writer on educational & the TLI-Paedagogics, Vienna, Austria)

Dr. Suresh Frederick (Plenary Speaker)
(Department of English, Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu)

Highlighted the context related to Language and Psychology issues relating to Educational Psychology and help us understand the ways to overcome it 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, Global Research & Development Services 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 the audience were addressed:-

Session 3: Technical Session

In this technical session participant 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. "Blog-technology as an interactive method of extracurricular activities for international students at the initial phase of foreign language learning" Presented by Olga Dragomyretska Affiliated to Language department, Training center for international students, Odessa State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Odessa, Ukraine

2. "The Effects Of Mindfulness-Based Interventions On Symptoms Of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Among Children: A Meta-Analysis" Presented by Boglarka Vekety Affiliated to Doctoral School of Education, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary

3. "Entitlement - Based Maladaptive Cognitions of the Western World and Resilience - Promoting Adaptive Cognitions of the Developing World: A Suggestion for Cognitive Therapy in the West" Presented by Daphne Catherine Spyropoulos Affiliated to Department of Psychology, Deree- The American College of Greece, Athens, Greece

Global Research & Development Services 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, Global Research & Development Services 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. Global Research & Development Services aims at promoting research and talent of scholars by giving the scholarship to 5 selected applicants for each conference.

In each, Global Research & Development Services International conference, the Best paper award is given to best researches. In our conferences, the Best paper award is given to the participants with the best scholarly paper submitted and presented at the conference. In 6th ICPLR 2018 - International Conference on Psychology & Language Research (Portugal), Best Paper Award was given to paper: