Although China is the country with the largest number of internet users in the world, the dominant language is not Chinese but English.Notable is the widespread use of English as an International Language in world relations since the 1980s.Nevertheless, English Language (EL) continues to be treated with disdain in most schools in the country, whether public or private, a practice that brings harm to students by not being able to access information on the internet through reading.Thus, it is intended in this paper, to detail the path of Modern Foreign Languages Teaching (MFL), specifically, English.For this, , the historical panorama of the Brazilian Education until the creation of the National Curricular Parameters (NCPs) and the place of the EL in them is briefly described by means of bibliographic review.In order to understand systematically the loss brought to the students of EL, complex relations by means of General Systems Theory is briefly described, which reveals a third knowledge relating the whole and the new characteristics of the parts, according to Bertalanffy.Still to this background is added the conventional knowledge that people have about the things of the world, their foreknowledge of things in order to arrive at the concept of knowledge about the organization of oral and written texts or intertext.A brief analysis of the classroom issue, noting the formation of the Modern Foreign Language teacher, the students, the classroom as a physical environment, with its resources or lack thereof, and the format and method of the classroom.This work also made it possible to reflect on the continuity of the IL teaching career despite the setbacks found