世界上高校的大学英语教学主要是专门用途英语教学，尤其是为学生专业课程服务的学术英语教学。而我国学术英语刚刚起步。通过对复旦大学等四所大学的需求分析，我们发现，在高等教育国际化背景下，学生对学术英语的学习需求是非常迫切的。为此我们从学术英语课程的目的、教材、课堂模式和教学效果等方面进行案例分析，试图提出一个适合我国高校、可从新生就开始学习的学术英语教学模式和方法。

ESP is practiced at the tertiary level in most countries where EAP is especially highlighted to prepare students for their academic study． However ，EAP is new at Chinese universities and colleges． Needs analysis of the students of four universities reveals that EAP is becoming increasingly significant against the background of the internationalization of higher education．Based on the analysis ，the paper uses the case of the EAP course offered at Fudan to illustrate its goal ，material development and classroom activities so that a feasible model of EAP is provided for the freshmen's college English teaching．