Enhancing Students Communicative Skills through Classroom Interaction in Iraqi EFL Classes

Oral Proficiency and communicative skills have always been a benchmark of ELT all over the world. In Iraq, the level of EFL learners has always been unsatisfactory and it is very usual to find that graduates of Iraqi University English Departments face real difficulty in gaining proficiency skills. There is an apparent lack of exposure to the target language in Iraqi classrooms and the focus has always been on the grammar and form. There is no real classroom discourse between teachers and learners and according to the researcher s knowledge, there has been no one single study conducted to investigate the social construction of classroom talk in Iraqi EFL classes and its importance.