Tina wrote this:
It is not important that students comprehend every individual word. It is important that they can follow the message and not get lost and that they stay engaged. In fact, we would argue that many teachers’ failures to continue on with CI are partially due to their trying to make every single word clear to their students. It can’t be done. A person can either understand the individual words or the message, but not both at the same time. The mind can’t do that any more than the reader of this sentence can translate each word in it separately while at the same time understanding what the sentence says.