This paper aims to highlight the theoretical and practical contributions of the thought of philosopher of language Mikhail Bakhtin for Brazilian education, especially as to the conceptions of language and pedagogical consequences caused by his epistemology. As to author´s thought, we can find the notion of languag as a social and dialogical process of genres, intertextuality, polyphony and transmission processes of the word of the other-direct speech, indirect cited speech and its variants-among others, brought to discussion by this documentary and comparative research that analyzes excerpts of the Brazilian Curricular Parameters of Portuguese Language for Elementary and High Education and citations from author's work. We found, by means of a bakhtinian dialogical discursive analysis, that many issues raised by the philosopher and his Circle, known as the Circle of Bakhtin, constitute the educational discourses expressed in those documents and influence directly in specific didactic and pedagogical issues of teaching Portuguese language in Brazil.