This paper examines explicitness in English as lingua franca (ELF) spoken interactions. Using a conversationanalysis procedure, about 11h of audio-recorded naturally occuring ELF interactions of 79 incoming Erasmusstudents were analyzed for this purpose. The corpus was compiled by means of 54 speech events, 29 interviews and25 focus group meetings and the participants represented 24 mother tongues. Research into ELF reveals that ELFspeakers tend to use various “explicitness strategies” (Mauranen, 2007) in order to enhance intelligibility. Thefindings of this study show that there are indeed variations from standard ENL forms with respect to the degree ofexplicitness in spoken interactions. There is a tendency among ELF speakers to make the meaning more explicit forthe listeners. Repetitions of same expressions in subsequent sentences, use of over-explicit forms, use of an extrasubject following a relative clause and use of emphatic reference are the emerging patterns observed in this study.

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<em>This study introduces the marking system for 3^rd person present tense in English as Lingua Franca interactions. It is a corpus study which is compiled as part of a PhD study to investigate the lexico-grammatical characteristics of ELF. The corpus, Corpus IST-Erasmus, consists of 10 hours 47 minutes of recorded ELF interactions. It is compiled by means of 54 speech events with the participation of 79 Erasmus students in Istanbul, representing 24 diverse L1s. The focus of this paper is to present whether there are variations from standardized ENL forms with respect to the 3^rd person present tense marking, as proposed in previous ELF research. The results indicate that the use of 3^rd person zero in place of 3^rd person -s is becoming an emerging pattern in ELF interactions.</em>