This article investigates the interplay of second language acquisition, foreign language pedagogy, and cultural insights through the lens of the Lisa Loeb cross-cultural travel fellowship through Boston University. The participant observers were three full-time Boston University graduate students in the School of Education's Modern Foreign Language Education program who spent six weeks abroad in countries that speak the language they now instruct as full-time language educators.
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