In this paper, CALL software for English vocabulary-learning is tested as to its usefulness for learning collocations. Our analysis of seven commercially available programs – most of them for German-speaking learners – shows that, so far, collocations have been largely neglected in CALL. A number of suggestions are made for collocational exercises that are likely to be both useful for the learner and easy to implement in a CALL program.
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Nesselhauf et al. (2002) studied this question.