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.