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About Webster Transfer School

Webster Transfer School Philosophy

Here are some of my thoughts on the university transfer education business.

This is easier said than done for a for-profit school.

However, Webster University will continue to take the high road when it comes to doing what needs to be done and not cross the line when it comes to what shouldn't be done.

Teachable means
Make changes
This is it!
Noah Webster

 

Webster is the name of the American dictionary compiler Noah Webster. Webster recognized the need for the newly independent United States to gain independence from Britain not only in politics, laws, and institutions, but also in language, so he published the American Dictionary of the English Language based on American linguistic life.

 

The preface to the dictionary states. "Language is the expression of ideas. If the people of a country cannot preserve the independence of their ideas, they cannot preserve the independence of their language." Webster, who argued that traditional British spelling was not only out of sync with pronunciation, but also inefficient, with many unnecessary letters that were never pronounced, believed that American English needed to be different from British English in order to have linguistic sovereignty.

 

Eventually, he led the American spelling reform movement in favor of phonetic spelling for ease of understanding. Here are some examples of how Webster changed British spellings to American ones.

 

(UK) (US)

color → color

theater → theater

traveller → traveler

Picture English words

 

I made it myself in my spare time while teaching for four years. It took me six months to complete the word list alone. There are a few vocabulary books out there, but I think this is the first one that explains words with images.

According to the "picture superiority effect" in cognitive psychology, words learned through images are remembered six times longer.

 

I thought it would add a little fun to the boring word memorization, but it was actually so hard to work with images that I gave up twice before finally finishing it. My wife is a graphic designer so she helped me a lot.

 

< Reference Books

Roget's Super Thesaurus (thesaurus)

SAT, TOEFL, GRE Vocabulary

20 years of official English vocabulary

Based on the above reference books, we created word list data, added synonyms and short example sentences, and categorized the difficulty level by color.

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