EXPLORING THE ROLE OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ ONLINE SELF-REGULATED LEARNING ACROSS DIFFERENT EPISTEMIC BELIEFS LEVELS

Self-regulated learning is one of the keys of success in acquiring knowledge. Epistemic beliefs also play an important role on the self-regulated learning process. It affects students’ achievements depend on each belief of knowledge and knowing. However, less attention given to the constructs on online learning environment. The main purpose of this research was to know the extent of EFL students’ Online Self-regulated English Learning (OSEL) across the different level of Epistemic Beliefs. A total of 100 EFL students from Universitas Brawijaya were chosen randomly as the samples for this study. This survey study was adopting two questionnaires from Emaliana (2017) and Zheng et al. (2016) to gather the data. The result reports that there were from 81 students who have sophisticated epistemic beliefs, 54 students are having Advanced OSEL. It indicated that the extent of EFL students’ OSEL across different epistemic beliefs levels are great. Unexpectedly, it was found that there are students who have Basic OSEL with sophisticated epistemic beliefs and vice versa. Accordingly, it is recommended for further researcher to investigate this unique case. By using a qualitative design, it might enable further researchers to get profound result.


Research Background
In terms of international communication, most people in the world use English to interact one to another because it is the lingua franca. In Indonesia, people do not use English as a daily basis conversation for it is considered as a foreign language. Meaning that Indonesian learners are categorized as English Foreign Language Learners (EFL Learners). Therefore, Indonesian government put English as a part of Indonesian curriculum to enhance Indonesian learners in facing the globalization (Mappiase, 2014).
There are four skills that should be acquired, that are listening, reading, speaking, and writing. In acquiring those four skills, students have their own strategies and goals. Students will apply the most effective strategy for their learning processes Puspitasari et al., 2019). In the process of selecting the best strategy and goal, students have done what is called self-regulated learning (SRL). Students plan, control, and evaluate themselves (Pintrich, 2004; Kartika & Emaliana, 2016). Selfregulation can be viewed as the requisite discipline of the individual in their learning process , whether this process takes place in an online or face-to-face environment ( 2008). Self-regulated learning, however, can be a challenge for many students when it comes to a technology-mediated learning environment, especially in an online learning environment (Cho, 2013). Teachers, lecturers, or other educators often hold online learning through various media. For instance, through Google Classroom, web-based classes, or social media. In Indonesia, especially, there is a popular platform of online courses namely Ruangguru.
In the online learning environment, unfortunately, students' self-regulated learning have less attention. The development of self-regulated learning skills is particularly important (Saputra & Emaliana, 2016), as the online learning environment has been indicated as requiring students to employ more self-regulated learning skills. Even though students are asked to be autonomous learning, the role of the teacher remains important in their learning process (Emaliana, 2019). Besides, there is an important role that influences self-regulated learning, namely Epistemic Beliefs. It simply defines as the beliefs of students about knowledge and process of knowing (Ketabi, 2014). Hofer and Pintrich (1997) said that epistemic beliefs generate goals for learning. Epistemic beliefs might affect the standard students set for learning goals during the planning phase, which also influence until the rest of the learning cycle . That is why it is important to know students' epistemic beliefs. It divided into several levels. In Emaliana's (2017) research, epistemic beliefs divided into two levels, which are simple and sophisticated. When teacher or lecturer know their students' level of epistemic beliefs, then, they can determine strategies, materials, and learning media that are appropriate for their students. Some research about self-regulated learning has been conducted. Several previous studies conducted research on students' self-regulated learning in searching academic information in online environment (Lee, 2011;Chiu, 2013). Zheng (2016) conducted research about the relationship between students' conception of language learning and their online self-regulation. Several researchers have conducted research on the relationship between selfregulated learning and epistemic beliefs. In 2010, Muis and Franco probed the relationship between epistemic beliefs and metacognitive self-regulation while Strømsø and Bråten (2010) examined the relationships between epistemic beliefs about the Internet and self-regulated learning in web-based situations. Richter and Schmid (2010) illustrated the mechanisms by which epistemic beliefs affect selfregulated learning. However, none of those researches has researched the extent of students' online selfregulated learning based on the different level of epistemic beliefs. As mentioned above, students' epistemic beliefs could influence students' learning process. As Emaliana (2017) said, epistemic beliefs will affect students' achievement in learning depend on each belief of knowledge and knowing. Therefore, by knowing students online self-regulation based on each belief, teacher or lecturer could possibly direct the atmosphere of learning that makes students "sophisticated".

Methods
It is descriptive quantitative research. The purpose was to find out the number of students' OSEL and their Epistemic Beliefs. In order to understanding the phenomenon, this research was written descriptively. 3) Taking the result After all of the students filled the questionnaires, the researcher took the result to be analyzed. 6. Analyzing the data. After the data has been gathered, the researcher analyzed the data using Microsoft Excel. Firstly, the researcher coded the answers, YES has a value of one while the NO has a value of zero. Then, the scores of each participant were calculated with IF function formula in Microsoft Excel. Afterward, the researcher analyzed the result of the data by classifying the OSEL result in Basic or Advance online self-regulated learning and analyze the epistemic beliefs result in Simple or Sophisticated epistemic beliefs. The result revealed as students' OSEL on each type of epistemic beliefs.

• EFL Online Self-regulated English Learning
In calculating the data, researcher used Microsoft Excel to get the total of which students have basic and advanced OSEL. To divide which students is basic or advanced OSEL, researcher used IF Function that combined with logical function AND. Before the researcher categorized the data, she inputted the scores of the filled questionnaire. From the data, it can be seen what the total score of their questionnaire is. Then, the researcher categorized by using the formula above. Students who have a total score 1-5 are those who have Basic OSEL. While those who have a total score of 6-10 indicate that, they have Advanced OSEL.  Same as the OSEL variable, researcher here used IF function combined with AND formula. Among 100 valid participants, it is discovered that 81% of them are higher achiever or sophisticated. Meanwhile, 19% of the participants have simple epistemic beliefs. It can be said that almost all participants have the idea that English is a language that must be learned, and it has become a necessity to learn it. Moreover, their way of learning target language is more flexible than those who have simple epistemic beliefs.

EFL OSEL based on Epistemic Beliefs Levels
The researcher classified the results of each questionnaire. Table 5 shows the number of students who have simple and sophisticated epistemic beliefs in the Basic OSEL and Advanced OSEL categories.  Table 5 shows the percentage of simple and sophisticated epistemic beliefs in OSEL categories. The calculation is obtained by firstly dividing any group of students who have basic OSEL and advanced OSEL and simple and sophisticated epistemic beliefs. Then, the researchers categorized it again. It is found that from 38 Basic OSEL students, 28.95% of them have simple epistemic beliefs and 71.05% have sophisticated epistemic beliefs. While, from 62 Advanced OSEL students, there are 12.9% of them are simple and 87.1% sophisticated.

Discussion
The current study investigated the extent of English Education Department students online self-regulated English learning based on their different level of epistemic beliefs. Firstly, from the OSEL questionnaire, it was found that more than 50% of the participants are having Advanced OSEL. 38% of them are having Basic OSEL and 62% are having Advanced OSEL. In goal setting factor (item 1), it shows that the mean score for Basic OSEL responses is 0,21 which means that students tend to not set their goal in the learning process. Unlike the response in Advance OSEL, the gap of the mean score is quite far 0,63. It indicates that in the learning process, setting a goal is a necessity for the students. In environment structuring factor (item 2), both Basic and Advanced OSEL students agree that they need a good and comfortable learning atmosphere. In item 3-5, task strategies and time management factor, Advanced OSEL students are do manage their time and adjust their learning strategy, while Basic OSEL students are not. Likewise, Advanced OSEL students have a tendency to seek help and communicate with peers or lecturers to evaluate and monitor their learning (item 6-10). For EFL Epistemic Beliefs questionnaire, unexpectedly the result of the study shows that 81% of students are sophisticated. For them, learning English is such a necessity. They believe that English is dynamic. It is not something inherited, but people need to work hard if they want to master the language. When people try to learn it, they will improve their skill over time. Students also believe that everyone can learn English from the  [24][25]. Students with sophisticated epistemic beliefs have an orientation of process. They do not feel shame to make mistakes and will keep practicing.
Oppositely, students with simple epistemic beliefs believe that learning EFL is static. They gave positive responses to the omniscient authority dimension. Meaning that they agree if learning comes from authority. The orientation of simple epistemic beliefs students is the product, no matter how the process they pass. Fortunately, it was found that only 19% of the participants have simple epistemic beliefs. In result, the participants of this study are having Advanced OSEL with sophisticated epistemic beliefs. As in table 4.6, 54 students have it. It means that students with sophisticated epistemic beliefs have more effort on their learning process. Moreover, students take action to monitor their online learning processes for courserelated purposes, use applicable strategies to gather relevant online resources, and evaluate their learning outcomes. In line with Franco (2012) and , that higher epistemic belief is associated with more learning processes and outcomes than lower ones. As mentioned above, in the learning process, Advanced OSEL students communicate with their peers, confirmed by Emaliana (2017), sophisticated students who possess these characters. Likewise, students with Basic OSEL are students who have simple epistemic beliefs. As shown in table 4.5, from 19 simple epistemic beliefs students, 11 of them are having Basic OSEL. Explained by Cheng (2013), students with low-level SRL only express their preparation in terms of goal setting and planning for their tasks, whereas those with high-level SRL exhibit practical actions of supervising, regulating and evaluating their learning processes and outcomes. Other than that, it was found that there were 27 students with sophisticated epistemological beliefs that having Basic OSEL. Students here have such a positive view or belief in English learning but they have less effort or even did not performing self-regulated learning. In line with Chiu (2013) and  findings, students with certain sophisticated epistemic beliefs did not possess tendencies to undertake self-regulated learning in Internet-based environments.

Conclusion
As the results revealed, it can be concluded ELEP students' show great extent on OSEL across the different level of Epistemic Beliefs. It shows that the participants are mostly having Advanced OSEL with sophisticated epistemic beliefs (54 students). Intriguingly, the findings show that apparently there are students who have Advanced OSEL with Simple Epistemic Beliefs, and vice versa, there are students who have Basic OSEL with Sophisticate Epistemic Beliefs. Through these results, it stated that students' epistemic beliefs influence their learning processes in the online environment. The important role of the teacher in creating a sophisticated learning atmosphere is very important. By using the applicable teaching strategies and media, it might trigger the students to activate their self-regulatory more. Meanwhile, with the use of technology, for instance, the internet, students should be able to be more independent and expected to have wide views in English learning. Nevertheless, in reality, there are still students who are not aware of it.

First author
Stephani Wulandari Tasik A Teacher in Mawar Sharon Christian School. She is teaching for young learners. Her research interests are ICT-Based teaching and learning, English language teaching, and Teaching for young learners.