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There are different types of abuse, but here this study will focus on one of these mistreatments; “verbal abuse". Verbal abuse is not a new problem; in fact, it probably is as old as human lives on earth. Yet it wasn't until 1968 that public outcry was truly heard about the physical and psychological abuse of children. Over the past 30 years, significant amounts of public and professional attention have been focused on this problem. Recently, increasing attention is being paid to various types of verbal abuse which are regarded as forms of psychological violence. The purpose of this research is three-fold: Firstly, to see what students think of the use of verbal abuse in EFL classrooms and secondly, to actually observe teachers' applications of verbal mistreatment in EFL classrooms to find out how many times and in which situation they apply deliberately or non-deliberately different types of abuses. And also, which types of verbal abuse are mostly used.