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Abstract

This paper presents an initial proposal of a collocation pedagogical bilingual dictionary formed by noun + verb, in Spanish language. Its objective is to help Spanish learning students, speakers of Brazilian Portuguese, in their oral and written productions. Those learners have special collocation difficulty when verb or noun is different in both languages as in “prender la computadora” (Spanish) and “ligar o computador” (Portuguese) or “tener éxito” (Spanish) and "ter sucesso" (Portuguese). Students will not usually work them clearly and explicit at the initial stages of learning, and therefore, transfer their mother tongue to Spanish. This paper provides a Phraseology picture, identifies its object of study and outlines collocation characteristics. Subsequently, this study explains collocation selection methodology and presents a proposal of a collocation dictionary formed by divergent noun + verb between both languages. This dictionary is expected to help Brazilian students improve their collocation knowledge, as well as their communicative competence.