This study selected textbooks used in the Korean language education course for foreign students' university studies, analyzed which literacy elements were applied and presented, and the aspects and degrees of application. Accordingly, the concept of academic literacy was organized and the sub-elements of academic literacy - critical literacy, information literacy, and cultural literacy elements - were established.
In this research, information literacy, which finds, understands, and reconstructs necessary information when performing a problem among various information in the text, appeared overwhelmingly more than other literacy. On the other hand, 'critical literacy' that requires active thinking and the ability to recognize social and cultural problems, judge problems from various perspectives, change and develop them, and critically view, understand, value, and reflect on cultural phenomena It can be seen that the level of 'cultural literacy' is particularly lacking. In addition, the relationship between the length of the text and the genre and theme of the text on the degree of application of literacy elements for academic purposes was also examined. It was confirmed that literacy for academic purposes was one of the factors that could not be ignored, although it did not become more or less applied due to any one factor. Although each of the textbooks for academic purposes published by various university institutions and private institutions is composed of texts with various contents, the themes did not show much difference, and the texts that promote awareness of social and cultural issues discussed in previous studies are lacking. It was confirmed that there is a lack of texts that critically and practically express cultural diversity and social and cultural phenomena.
This researcher analyzed the textbooks used in the Korean language education course for university mathematics by deriving the elements of academic literacy in Korean language education for academic purposes, which are not yet actively conducted in Korea, and suggested areas to be supplemented.