Pedagogical Ideas in Spanish Golden Age Orthography

The debate amongst Spanish orthographers took an unexpected turn at the beginning of the 17th century, when references to teachers, children, and the teaching of reading and writing became frequent. Phonetic spelling was defended because it helped children learn to read and write. Orthographers's pedagogical arguments are frequently related to the alphabet, the creation of letters, the order of the alphabet, the order of the primers’ reading lessons, and the very concept of orthology that underlies phonetic orthography.