Starting out with comprehension based instruction is very much like running down a train track to the next town. You stumble and fall and it is very awkward. But the workout is good for you. It’s basic training and it happens in your classroom and it takes real courage to stay in and do the workouts.
Malcolm Gladwell has suggested, correctly in my opinion, that all we need is time, hours and hours, ten thousand of them has been suggested, for mastery of anything. I agree. So with comprehension based language instruction, we just need the time. Put it in. Don’t give up.
Soon, you will be speeding down the tracks in your own big locomotive. It’s like that.