The present paper has provided research results that aimed at investigating strategies symbolically mediating children’s interaction situations in classroom enabling common knowledge and subjectivity construction. We have studied two primary school classes of the fourth year in a private school in Fortaleza, Ceará. We have analysed discursive activities of two four-child groups who worked together in learning tasks. We have focused on children’s dialogues, identifying semiotic strategies enabling learning and proximal development zone emergence in children’s interaction situations, all from a theoretical and methodological viewpoint based upon the historical and cultural perspective by Lev Vygotsky and the language theory by Mikhail Bakhtin, while communication and conduct practices were created in the game of roles that were formed in these interactions.
interaction; symbolical mediation; proximal development zone; knowledge construction; subjectivity