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With the development of ICT(information communication technology), recently there has been many efforts to apply the Internet to English learning in EFL. But most of them are only theoretical studies, and actually there are few cases to use the Internet as an English learning material in the classroom. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the possibility that our students can improve their English writing abilities by using the Internet forum through interdependent collaborative learning. It is based on constructivism that WBI, by offering socio-cultural interaction engineered towards learning, creates the environment of collaborative learning which discusses and solves problems each other. The result can be summarized as the following two facts. First, by using in real situation English expressions which they learned in the classroom, they can acquire affective motivation, that is, the great interest and confidence that is the most important in foreign language learning. Second, they can enhance their English speaking abilities as well as English writing through their common subject and problem solving by means of E-mail exchanges with their fellows and native speakers in the world. These facts are in accord with the recent language learning theory which makes our students learn the foreign language through contact with authentic linguistic materials.