This paper aims at analyzing the linguistic situation in the frontier Brazil/French Guiana. The results obtained were discussed in relation to the foreign language teaching linguistic policy established in Brazil. Considering the diversity of languages in the country, the frontiers are the places where the phenomena derived from linguistic contact are mostly observed. In view of this fact, a sociolinguistics research was developed, taking into account language through its social context. Our theoretical background encompasses the studies of language in contact and studies about linguistic policy and planning to linguistically diverse communities. Considering language in contact we based this research on the classic studies that deal with the speaker’s level of competence and the functions of use of language in bilinguism and multilinguism situations. Regarding linguistic policy and planning we were based on studies that investigate the matter of bi/multilinguism for the establishment of proposals of bilingual education. The analysis was carried as an ethnographic based qualitative research through the use of the following tools: documental analysis, field research, interviews and surveys. We identified the linguistic status and the attitudes of sixth grade students of an elementary (public) school of the region to serve as a basis to the discussion concerning the establishment of more appropriate linguistic policies in the context of linguistic minorities, such as the border/frontier ones. More significantly, we indicate that the region lacks a linguistic policy and planning concerning the formalization of the French language as the foreign language in teaching institutions.