According to the Brazilian document “Base Nacional Comum...

Although the BNCC acknowledges the global use of English, it maintains that the language should be taught in accordance with the standardized norms of native speakers from hegemonic countries, in order to ensure international intelligibility.

While recognizing certain sociolinguistic variations, the BNCC recommends privileging native varieties—particularly British and American English—so as to preserve linguistic accuracy and cultural prestige in the classroom.

The BNCC views English as a culturally neutral tool, which should be taught without attention to the sociocultural backgrounds of its speakers, focusing primarily on grammatical structures common to standardized exams.

The BNCC promotes an understanding of English as a dynamic and context-dependent lingua franca, thus legitimizing its diverse uses by speakers from various linguistic and cultural backgrounds across the globe.

Given the need for linguistic consistency in education, the BNCC encourages teachers to adopt one recognized English variety as a fixed model, regardless of the multilingual realities of learners.