Ana Mar�a P�rez-Giron�s is an adjunct Professor of Spanish oat Western University, Middletown, Connecticut. She received a Licenciatura en Filolog�a Anglogerm�nica from the Universidad de Sevilla in 1985, and her M.A. in General Linguistics from Cornell University in 1988. Her professional interests include second language acquisition and the integration of cultural competence and technology in language teaching