Abstract: Resulting from a survey that involved 207 students from three different schools in Apucarana / PR, Brazil, this work aims to compile the obtained responses and foster the understanding of the importance given by students to English language classes. Contaminated at the same time by a rather utilitarian view of its teaching - as denounced by Alfredo Bosi in his work "Dialética da colonização" (1979) -, enthusiastic for the possibility to disregard it, choosing Spanish in the selective processes - vestibular, ENEM and others – they are about to participate, and taking part in a deep-rooted culture that claims to only learn the language the one who attends some of the numerous open..........
Keywords: Culture. English Language. Lack of standardization. Teaching and learning. Utilitarianism.
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