The Curricular Guidelines for High School - MT (2012, p.90) approach some effects of global expansion of English language teaching around the world. According to them, the expansion of English in the world and its relationship with other languages was not something innocent. It is solidly rooted in the colonial period of the British Empire and in ideological arguments related to language teaching in the world to promote capitalist interests.

Mato Grosso. Secretaria de Estado de Educação. Orientações Curriculares: Área de Linguagens: Educação Básica. Cuiabá: Gráfica Print, 2012

From those considerations, it is CORRECT to say that: