Over the years, different prescriptions (prescriptive documents) and laws have suggeste...

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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), theCommon 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.

a) English as a first or a native language, which is usually the first language a person has been exposed to from birth or within the critical period. The first language of a child is part of that child's personal, social and cultural identity.
b) English as a global language, which suggests English language as a global means of communication similar to an international auxiliary language, and often refers to the movement towards an international standard for the language, mostly associated with geopolitical matters.
c) English as an additional language, which relies on the presupposition that learners would depend on their mother tongue to learn and use the target language being taught. It would be an addition to other language(s) already present in the individual's linguistic repertoire.
d) English as a lingua franca, which is considered to be a global means of inter-community communication and can be understood as any use of English among speakers of different first languages for whom English is the communicative medium of choice and often the only option.
e) English as a foreign language, which refers to the use of English by individuals whose native language is different, commonly among students learning to speak and write English. This term denotes the study of English in environments where it is not the dominant language and would be of subordinate importance.