The paper considers the main worldwide trends in computer-assisted language learning (CALL) development drawing on the materials of the WorldCALL-2013 international. The study of the conference materials and review of keynote conference speakers‘ papers allowed the authors to distinguish some key trends in modern CALL. They are: the problem of independent CALL theory development or borrowing and adapting theories from other applied linguistics fields, 12 urgent CALL tasks, problems and solutions of online-course realisation in different learning management systems (LMS), increasing use of Internet technologies for the organization of computer mediated communication (cmc) between students from different countries within the academic process and attempts to study communication processes taking place in the Internet outside the classroom.