Abstrak
Lesson planning, materials development, language skills practice, and feedback and assessment can be provided by AI tools. Yet, more than technical familiarity with AI is required for effective usage. It is very necessary for future English teachers to understand AI limitations, clearly evaluate its inputs, ethical usage consideration, and appropriate pedagogical decision making. This paper concentrates on AI literacy in Uzbek TESOL teacher education and proposes a context- sensitive framework for its improvement. Based on recent survey on teacher AI competency and language-teacher GENAI literacy, AI literacy is conceptualized as a professional competence including AI knowledge, critical evaluation, pedagogical integration, ethical responsibility, and reflective judgment in this paper. This paper concentrates on international frameworks support a beneficial base but can not be transferred unchanged to Uzbekistan. In order to connect general AI competencies with the specific professional requirements of English language teaching and the realities of Uzbek teacher education A context-sensitive approach is necessary.
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