The development of CALL environment on the WWW for teaching academic English

The paper describes a course supported by a hypermedia language-learning environment, called "AcademicEnglish" based on a communicative language teaching approach, for EFL/ESL academicians to improve their communicative competence in academic contexts, and shows the design and implementation of the courseware in this environment. To support our hypotheses in building such an environment, we conducted a questionnaire survey of the difficulties in academic language learning. Moreover, we have explored the research findings of SLA from the educators\´ and learners\´ points of view. The focus is to present our approach in communicative-oriented courseware development. Based on our hypotheses, we built an illustrative prototype system, which intends to allow learning goal communication, learning activity negotiation and collaboration between learners