Os Parametros Curriculares Nacionais e o ensino de inglês no Brasil

This paper presents preliminary results of the research entitled “A comparative approach to the teaching of Portuguese and English taking into account the PCN from Middle School and the use of new educational technologies”. These results concern the history of English teaching in Brazilian High Schools, considering the goals from the Parametros Curriculares Nacionais (PCN) to include the subject English Language (among others) in a larger area labeled “Languages, Codes and their Technologies”. The research takes into consideration official documents from the Brazilian educational public policies and other approaches on applied linguistics related to the area.