A general idea of literacy has constantly enlarged in accordance with the changing environment of communication. The cultural litercy is the representative aspect in reference to the change of literacy concept. Today the concept of cultural literacy is generally accepted as the fundamental cultural knowledge(skill) that have the individual to participate sociobecause -cultural communication. Some classicists have emphasized that the cultural literacy should attach importance to the education to have students understand classic text of its traditional cultural value. According to phenomenal perspective, the concept of cultural literacy is explained as the ability of understanding rationality of usual thing's value, keeping sensibility to symbol in communication activity, and adjusting to changing environment of media. In short, the concept of cultural literacy is more compound and highly fluid concept related to communication ability than that of traditional literacy. In order to reconceptualize cultural literacy from the angle of language education, one should have the view-point that take hold of the cultural phenomena in context with educational phenomena. And it (reconceptualization) requires to have significance process that the content and phenomena of culture is considered in context with linguistic communication. To establish desirable correspondence with cultural literacy and language education, we recognize that cultural literacy is necessary for a man of today to progress his communicative life which is strongly related language education. It is possible to categorize the significant feature of cultural literacy to consider meaningfully in language education. These three(or six) features of cultural literacy keep interaction, through which the reconceptualization in context with language education is possible. There are some tasks in theory and practice to reconceptualize cultural literacy in context with language education. 1. Developing and establishing the powerful theory of language education to produce reconceptualizing the cultural literacy in context with language education 2. Studying relations between sincere communication and culture criticism in context with language education for the successful reconceptualization 3. Strengthening mutuality of general education and language education for the successful reconceptualization in terms of educational productivity and its vividness.