ABSTRACT
This chapter identifies two processes important in the mastering of a foreign language. They are declarativization and proceduralization. The chapter describes about how teachers might help learners with these processes. Two characteristics can be associated with the good presentation of new language. One of them is clarity. The language point you are conveying to your learners needs to be clear. The second one is memorability. All teachers, including language teachers, often need to do some explaining, so learning how to do it will certainly come in useful. For communication to take place, people need to be telling each other things they do not already know. In a language teaching exercise where people give each other already-known information, this essential element is missing. For communication to occur, there needs to be an 'information gap.' According to this line of argument, some communication is viewed as 'bridging an information gap.'
