The impact of participant background on ELF interactions in EMI

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Last year, I was finally able to make some progress due to the return of foreign exchange students to our university. Unfortunately, the numbers of English L1 students in EMI classes has not returned to pre-COVID times, so I am having to adjust my plans for collecting recordings in intact classrooms.I was able to design and conduct a questionnaire of EMI class participants at my institution. I am currently analysing these data and hope to present it, along with the previously collected spoken interaction data, at conferences in the autumn and winter.I have also been able to attend some conferences and expand my knowledge on issues related to EMI in Japan and the use of English as a lingua franca in such contexts.