Articles for tag: Language Acquisition, Philosophy of Education

Karla News

The Teaching of Spelling

Subjects like “Spelling” have traditionally been part of early education, but clearly have exposed some problems with the educational process. Often words are grouped into categories where rules like “i before e etc.” are applied. A student has many “spelling rules” to learn and then must also learn the “exceptions” to those rules. When a ...

Karla News

Existentialism and Creative Writing

There are as many definitions of creative writing as there are people in the world. In general, a person who is uneducated about creative writing pedagogy might think of a creative writer as somewhat of a Shakespearean figure (Haake 4), while the creative writing student might be unable to separate the term creative writing from ...