Abstract
This article reviews the role played by Artificial Intelligence (AI) in enhancing EFL Teacher Education Programs. It is important to use AI in teaching EFL in general and EFL Teacher Education Programs in particular. It helps EFL Teacher Education Programs in terms of improving the quality of teacher education, enhancing teachers' skills, facilitating personalized learning, access to high-quality educational resources, identifying knowledge gaps, identifying learning styles, adaptive learning and continuous professional development. It is recommended that AI can be used to help qualified EFL precise teachers to cope with this digital era and maximize tending the coming generation which is called “digital learners".
Artificial intelligence (AI), generally expressed by the general public as the ability of machines or computers to think and act as humans do, represents the efforts towards computerized systems to imitate the human mind and actions (Wartman & Combs, 2018). In this respect, the basic definition of artificial intelligence can be expressed as the skilful imitation of human behaviour or mind by tools or programs (Mohammed & Watson, 2019). According to Timms (2016), it may be an illusion of the current structure to think that artificial intelligence will come within the computer format used at home. It could get into our lives within different functions and shapes.