This study translated and adapted the AI Literacy Questionnaire for Chinese pre-service teachers, grounded in Expectancy-Value Theory as a pre-specified theoretical framework. Examining its psychometric properties in a sample of 341 pre-service teachers (78% female; 86.5% third-year students) from Guangdong Province, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses supported a 24-item, five-factor structure: AI Ethics, AI Behavioral Commitment, AI Self-efficacy, AI Cognitive Application, and AI Intr