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All of the transnational students we surveyed and interviewed had studied English when they were in the United States. We conducted a secondary analysis of their experience with English as a second language. Our study of this important topic was limited to students' self-reporting. In the first place we asked them to rate their comfort with English on a sliding scale. Second, we asked the sixth and ninth grade survey respondents to compare whether they considered themselves stronger in English or in Spanish. Third we asked this subsample to describe their use of and experience with Spanish in the United States and with English in Mexico. Finally, in a number of interviews, we allowed students to code-switch between English and Spanish or to respond mostly in English, even though we always initiated the interview in Spanish, and Spanish was the obviously stronger language of most of our field research team members.