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Walshe, R. D., Ed. – 1975
This book contains insights into the writer's craft by 17 leading novelists from Australia and New Zealand. The Novelists were asked ten questions that covered the following topics: what the novel form can uniquely accomplish, the scope of the modern novel in comparison to earlier novel forms, the genesis of their own novels, special problems…
Descriptors: Authors, Creative Writing, English Instruction, Foreign Countries
McAlpine, Rachel – 1978
The New Zealand Council for Educational Research conducted a study to determine students' perceptions of and attitudes toward poetry instruction. A group of 186 fifth form (eleventh grade) students and 56 fifth form English teachers were queried in the following areas: the point of studying poetry; the "really important things" about a…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Educational Research, English Instruction, Language Arts
Elley, W. B.; And Others – 1979
A project to investigate the effects on the language development of secondary school pupils of a study of transformational grammar as represented in the Oregon English Curriculum involved 250 students in a large, coeducational high school near Auckland, New Zealand. The students were divided into three matched groups who studied different English…
Descriptors: Educational Research, English Curriculum, English Instruction, Foreign Countries