Teachers' Implementation of CAT in Iraqi EFL Classes

This study aims at investigating how Iraqi EFL teachers employ the communication accommodation strategies to develop interaction in EFL classes. observation was used as data collection method and by attending five lectures for five teachers with different specialization and experience at University of Mosul/College of Education for Humanities/ department of English. The results show that accommodation occurs in Iraqi EFL classes and the different accommodation strategies such as interpretability, approximation, discourse management, interpersonal control and emotional expression vary in their implementation. In addition, some factors such as the topic discussed, teacher specialization, looping and the relation between the teacher and his students have a crucial impact on the selection of one strategy over another. Finally code-switching was recorded as additional strategy to develop in-class interaction.