News and Events
PLaCE Celebrated 10th Anniversary with Well-Attended Showcase Event
Two PLaCE Instructor Teams Invited to Present at Inaugural Festival of Teaching and Learning
Local Language Testing: Design, Implementation, and Development Won 2024 SAGE/ILTA Best Monograph Award
Dimova, S., Yan, X., & Ginther, A. (2020). Local language testing: Design, implementation, and development. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429492242
Upcoming Language and Intercultural Education Conferences
Ordered by Proposal Deadline; Last Updated: 7/2/2024
CGC (Consortium on Graduate Communication):
- Proposal deadline: 1 March 2024;
- Conference dates and location: 12–14 June 2024, Virtual as hosted by Purdue University
ICLCLE (International Conference on Literacy, Culture, and Language Education):
- Proposal deadline: 31 May 2024;
- Conference dates and location: 25–27 October 2024 at Stewart Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages):
- Proposal deadline: 3 June 2024 at 5:00 p.m. EDT;
- Conference dates and location: 18–21 March 2025 at Long Beach, California
MwALT (Midwest Association of Language Testers):
- Proposal deadline: 16 June 2024 (extended to 23 June 2024);
- Conference dates and location: 4–5 October 2024 at Duolingo in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
AAAL (American Association for Applied Linguistics):
- Proposal deadline: 15 July 2024 at 4:00 p.m. EDT;
- Conference dates and location: 22–25 March 2025 at Denver, Colorado
INTESOL (Indiana Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages):
- Proposal deadline: 1 October 2024;
- Conference dates and location: 22–23 November 2024 at Indianapolis, Indiana
Upcoming Local Events
List from "CSSAC Campus Connection" (Campus Support Staff Advisory Committee newsletter, July issue)
Local farmers’ markets
- West Lafayette: Cumberland Park, 3:30-7 p.m. on Wednesdays until October 30
- Purdue: Thursdays, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., now until October 31
- Lafayette: 5th Columbia to Ferry Street, Saturdays, 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m., now until October
- Delphi: Downtown Delphi, 1st & 3rd Saturdays now until October
Now until September 8: Robert Pulley Art Crawl, downtown Lafayette/West Lafayette, map for sculptures is found here.
July
4: Stars and Stripes Celebration, Riehle Plaza 6-11 p.m. *
6: Wabash & Earie Canal Days, Delphi, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
9: Art in the Park: Dog Days of Summer Columbian Park, 6-8:30 p.m. *
11: Lafayette Citizen Band Concert, Columbian Park, 7:30 p.m.*
12: Purdue Memorial Summer Concert Series, Purdue Union 6 p.m. *
13: Wabash Riverfest, Tapawingo Park, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. *
13: Mosey Down Main Street, Downtown Lafayette, 6-11 p.m. *
18: Summer Trivia Night, Purdue Memorial Union Ground Floor, 5 p.m. *
18: Lafayette Citizen Band Concert, Columbian Park, 7:30 p.m.*
19-27: Tippecanoe County 4H Fair, Tippecanoe County 4H Fairgrounds *
19-20: Wea Creek Orchard, Sunflower Festival,
19: Lafayette Gallery Walk, Downtown Lafayette, 6-9 p.m. *
19: Purdue Memorial Summer Concert Series, PMU, 6 p.m. *
20-21: Downtown Jazz and Blues Festival, downtown Lafayette, 5-11 p.m.
23: PMU Bingo, Purdue Memorial Union, 5-6:30 p.m. *
25: Lafayette Citizen Band Concert, Columbian Park, 7:30 p.m. *
26: Purdue Memorial Summer Concert Series, PMU 6 p.m. *
30: Art in the Park, End of Summer Bash, Columbian Park, 6-8 p.m.*
*free event