In foreign language teaching, the role of intonation has hardly been discussed. Books in the field of foreign language teaching hardly contain any relevant reference to intonation. This lack of interest in prosodic aspects of English has had its negative impact research in foreign language teaching as intonation is on undoubtedly an important aspect of spoken language. This paper aims at investigating the intonation of the English spoken by Iraqis. There are some reasons behind studying this aspect. First, there is a severe shortage of studying the supra- segmentals of Arabic and Arabic-English speech in contrast to the segmental aspects which have been investigated exhaustively. Second, one needs to identify the reason behind the feature which can be detected as typical of Iraqi English intonation, and whether they can be attributed to the negative transfer as interference from the phonology of the mother tongue