Fluency First Guided Cultivation of Academic Communication Competence for Chinese Graduates Based on EAP

English for Academic Purposes (EAP), which is a branch of English for specific purposes (ESP), focuses instruction on skills required to perform in an English-speaking academic context across core subject areas. For Chinese graduates whose mother tongue is not English, EAP teaching consists of four parts, which are academic listening, academic reading, academic listening and academic writing. This paper takes EAP teaching for computer major graduates with professional master degree as an example to introduce our creative teaching methods such as games, memory competition, debates and international conference simulating, with purpose of cultivating graduates’ academic communication competence, broadening their academic fields and improving their job competitiveness. Key of these teaching methods is students centered and situation-based teaching, focusing on students’ competence of free expression in oral or written English. Our teaching design concentrates on encouraging graduates interests in EAP learning, which is guided by fluency first principle. This teaching reform is also one exploration for IT international talents cultivation for computer major graduates with professional master degree.