The European Procedia Social and Behavioural Sciences Ep-SBS Algerian University Students’ Pragmatic Failure when Speaking EFL: Teachers’ Views and Strategies Nadia Idri a 1 a University of Bejaia, Aboudaou Campus, 06000, Algeria Abstract The present study attempts to explore the reasons behind pragmatic failure among advanced EFL learners when trying to communicate orally in their classes as perceived by their teachers. Do Bejaia University BA students suffer from Pragmatic failure and fail to communicate orally through using English items to exactly and properly convey what they tend to communicate? This aim is achieved through interviewing seven teachers who teach or taught third year students of English at Bejaia University. This makes the study qualitative in nature since it is exploratory. Findings showed the majority of the students, according to the teachers’ experience, do commit pragmatic errors when using English to communicate. Consequently, our informants’ responses revealed a wealth of information that enabled us to determine a number of reasons behind Third Year Students’ Pragmatic Failure when they communicate * Corresponding author. Tel.: +0-000-000-0000; fax: +0-000-000-0000. E-mail address: nadia.ahouari@univ-bejaia.dz