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The present paper concentrates on the linguistic behaviors prevailing in EFL students in Al-Anbar distinguished school for Girls. These behaviors are displayed through the choice of language, and politeness strategies employed by EFL students in their interaction with each other. Thus, the population of the current study is EFL students from the second intermediate and fifth preparatory classes in the secondary distinguished school for girls in Al-Anbar Province in the first and second semester of their academic year 2021-2022. Based on this population, a total of 40 students have volunteered to participate in this study. The age of the participants is in-between (14-17) years. Consequently, more than 30 samples of their online messages are collected by the researcher. These messages are sent by the participants of the study via Whatsapp groups established by the teachers of English language in this secondary distinguished school. To deeply explore the politeness strategies and to find the difference in age for these groups, these messages are analyzed by adopting the qualitative content analysis technique informed by Brown’s and Levisohn’s theory (1987) of politeness strategies. The findings reveal that EFL students from that school utilize various politeness strategies. Based on the frequency of these strategies, the researcher concludes that the age differences among participants play a pivotal role in determining the application and the choices of politeness strategies through their online interaction. As a result, the data of the present paper shows that participants from fifth stage are more aware and knowledgeable to these strategies than those who are from second intermediate stage.

The Ministry of Education is making distinguished efforts for the purpose of providing educational supplies and preparing schools and educational institutions to keep pace with scientific and knowledge development. Schools for the Excellence occupy a great interest among these institutions because of their role in absorbing the outstanding students. The Ministry of Education has in recent years been interested in making many amendments to the curricula, and the schools of the distinguished had a share of that, as it was done and starting from the academic year (2016-2017). Changing the curricula of scientific lessons to be in the English language instead of the Arabic language, and despite the difficulties associated with these curricula, the demand for applying to the distinguished schools is still continuing, which made the researcher work on a study aimed at evaluating the experience of teaching in English in the distinguished schools. This study was conducted on the General Directorate of Kirkuk Education and the research community consisted of teachers and teachers of the distinguished schools in Kirkuk Governorate Center for the academic year 2019-2020 and the sample consisted of 72 Administrator and teacher, and the researcher turned to two ways; the individual and group interview and the questionnaire as the study tools. The questionnaire consisted of 20 items, and the researcher has worked to find the reliability and validity factor for it. The researcher used a number of statistical means to reach to current the results, the most prominent one was the Ka2 square. The intensity degree in arriving to the results as the researcher has reached to a number of recommendations and proposals, which will be presented at the end of the research.