The present study aimed to investigate the teaching of pragmatics by Iraqi EFL teachers in Iraqi English language classrooms in an academic setting at Ministry of Education, Anbar General  Directorate for Education, secondary schools in Ramadi city, in the Republic of Iraq. Three  research questions were asked. The first question aimed to investigate whether pragmatics  is   being  taught  in  Iraqi  classrooms,  whereas  the  second  question  aimed  to examine  whether   pragmatics  is  presented  in  the  of  Fourth  Grade  Secondary  School textbook entitled English  for Iraq,   the third question aimed to  investigate whether the teaching of pragmatics is part of  the Iraqi English curriculum. The research was conducted as  a  qualitative  and  a  quantitative   case  study.  Non-participant  classroom  observation, document  analysis,  and  semi-structured   interview  were  used  to  collect  data  from  four respon.....

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