The purpose of this study is to analyze part of speech distribution according to proficiency level in 66 Korean textbooks used in major Korean language institutes. Since the number of Korean learners with instrumental motivation has significantly increased, it becomes a very important issue to evaluate their Korean proficiency levels measured through the official assessment of Korean Proficiency Test (TOPIK). Language teaching is subject to certain target learners, and it is necessary to proceed along with studies on them by considering the utilization of their research results. With regard to the distribution of different parts of speech throughout the proficiency levels, 593,100 nouns accounted for 47.86% of the total, 267,334 verbs accounted for 21.57%, and 108,593 adjectives accounted for 8.76%. Other than these three major parts of speech, those that modify other elements of a sentence show a comparatively high percentage. Although many parts of the textbooks contain dialogues or conversational sentence examples, the percentage of abbreviated words or exclamations that represent the characteristics of the spoken language were not very high.

본고는 한국 내 태국인 한국어 학습자용으로 편찬, 출판된 교 재 분석을 목적으로 한다. 교재 현황을 살핀 결과 1998년부터 2010년 까지 출판된 4권의 교재가 선정되었고 교재의 특징과 내적, 외적 구성 분석의 결과는 태국인 학습자를 위한 교재 연구에 기초자료로 활용될 것으로 기대한다.