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Microteaching is a significant strategy in teacher education programs for giving student teachers opportunities to practice their teaching techniques.This study aims at investigating how using microteaching affects the teaching performance and attitude of Iraqi EFL student teachers. For this purpose, 30 Iraqi EFL student teachers were selected and then randomly assigned to two groups:control and experimental, 15 in each. To collect the data of the study, two instruments were used.

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This study is about sarcastic comments on electricity crisis in Facebook only as one of the most popular social media. It attempts to study the type of the language used in Facebook throughout analyzing the types of the styles people use when commenting on electricity crisis. This study hypothesizes that people use different styles focusing primarily on the casual one when making a comment. To conduct this study, an adapted model is chosen. The model depends on Joos’s styles of language (1998). The data is collected from Iraqi official and social pages in Facebook with 100 comments as a sample to be representative of the way people make a comment. This study concluded that people are different in their language styles when commenting on electricity crisis with a primary focus on the casual style.