| خلاصه مقاله | Foreign language learning includes significant benefits such as creating opportunities for communicating, developing cultural awareness, enhancing memory and problem-solving, and critical thinking skills. However, learners suffer from the lack of contextual and authentic materials, ineffective activities, and the lack of practice opportunities. Within this scope, AI applications may present solutions for the potential problems listed above since they help to provide environments enabling autonomous and collaborative learning. On the other hand, while learners’ achievement and progress in the target language may be affected by their perceptions of using artificial intelligence environments, research on learners’ perceptions of using artificial intelligence remains too limited to conclude. According to the research findings, the integration of AI results in an improvement in reading comprehension, speaking performance, writing quality, and an increase in motivation, whereas research also shows that AI tools fail to make complicated reasoning, increase plagiarism, and debilitate critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Moreover, the results of only two studies that focus on learners’ perceptions do not show a consensus. In conclusion, “critical thinking, planning and evaluating learning, and reflection, a conscious effort on the part of the learner to continuously monitor the learning process from beginning to end” (Howard, 2019, p. 103) cannot be better and deeper understood without knowing how learners perceive the integration of AI tools to overcome teaching-learning obstacles. |