Over the years, different prescriptions (prescriptive
documents) and laws have suggested different statuses
for the English language, both as an object of teaching
for the English language teachers and as an object of
learning for the students from different classroom
contexts in Brazil. Some of these documents are the
National Curricular Parameters (PCN, 1998), the Common National Curricular Base (BNCC, 2017) and
the Law of Guidelines and Bases (LDB, 1996). In this
case, when it comes to the PCN (1998), as a prescriptive
document, check the answer whose status of English
language is correspondent to the one found in the
before-mentioned document, which suggests its status
and how this target language should be taught in
Brazilian classrooms.