This study investigated EFL Iraqi students’ level of pragmatic awareness, one central component of receptive pragmatic competence. Thus, to achieve its aims, the study employed a quantitative approach, where two hundred- forty EFL Iraqi students from Kerbala, Babylon, and Al-Qadysiah universities, participated. The students were asked to respond to a pragmatic reading questionnaire(test) consisting of two questions to measure their pragmatic awareness, of their meta-pragmatic and mat-linguistic skills, at both levels of micro and macro one. Then, using SPSS, the quantitative data is examined. Its results showed that there is an apparent lack of pragmatic awareness among EFL students due to language-related difficulties such as grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary, and sentence structure.