EFL students' epistemic beliefs and their relations to critical thinking and reading achievement

Aidha Azizah  Amatullah; Ive  Emaliana; Esti   Junining

doi:10.21070/jees.v6i2.1367

(1) * Aidha Azizah Amatullah Department of Language and Literature, Faculty of Cultural Studies, Universitas Brawijaya
Indonesia
(2) Ive Emaliana Department of Language and Literature, Faculty of Cultural Studies, Universitas Brawijaya
Indonesia
(3) Esti Junining Department of Language and Literature, Faculty of Cultural Studies, Universitas Brawijaya
Indonesia
(*) Corresponding Author

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21070/jees.v6i2.1367

Abstract

One of the key points of reading comprehension is epistemic beliefs. Epistemic beliefs can be explained as students’ determination of way of learning. Epistemic beliefs’ relation with critical thinking and reading achievement has not yet been clarified. The study has the aim to explore the relationship between the epistemic beliefs’ of students to their critical thinking and reading achievement. The method of the study is correlational. The participant of the research is 102 students from the 2019 batch of the English Language Education Program of reading comprehension class, A-E class in Universitas Brawijaya. The participants helped to fill the questionnaire. The researcher used SPSS to analyst the questionnaire that has been filled by the participants to know the result of the research. The result of SPSS’s analysis showed that between epistemic beliefs and critical thinking, there is a very strong correlation and between epistemic beliefs and reading achievement, there is a strong correlation. Based on the result of the correlation from SPSS’S analysis, it can be known that there is a close relation between epistemic beliefs, critical thinking, and reading achievement. If the students have high epistemic beliefs, they will have high critical thinking and reading achievement

HIGHLISGHTS:

Epistemic beliefs are very related to the critical thinking and reading
achievement of students.
The higher the level of epistemic beliefs, the better the critical thinking of
students.
The higher the level of epistemic beliefs, the better the reading achievement of
students.

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Author Biographies

Aidha Azizah Amatullah, Department of Language and Literature, Faculty of Cultural Studies, Universitas Brawijaya

Aidha Azizah Amatullah is a student of educational linguistic, master program of linguistic, Faculty of Cultural Studies, Universitas Brawijaya. She earned her undergraduate degree in English Language Education from
Universitas Brawijaya in 2021. She has teaching experience by joining a voluntary program of FPMA (Forum Pengajar Muda AEELS) in SD Wahid Hasyim Malang and an internship program in SMPN 15 Malang. She has
experienced being a presenter in an annual conference that is focused on English linguistics, English literature, and English teaching.

Ive Emaliana, Department of Language and Literature, Faculty of Cultural Studies, Universitas Brawijaya

Ive Emaliana is a lecturer of English language teaching in Universitas Brawijaya, Malang, East Java. She earned her undergraduate (2007) graduate (2012), and doctorate degrees (2017) in English Language Teaching from
State University of Malang. She taught secondary schools for five years and has been teaching English for Specific Purposes since 2007. Her teaching and research interest include EFL epistemic beliefs, inclusive education, and language assessment, gender studies in language teaching. She is the author and co-author of 9 books including From Literacy to Multiliteracies (2020), Evaluasi Pembalajaran Bahasa Asing pada Pendidikan Tinggi (2019), Academic Platforms for Students-Researchers (2018), and Success Stories in English Language Teaching and Learning (2014). Her papers were published in some edited books, conference proceedings, and national, international, Scopus-index journals.

Esti Junining, Department of Language and Literature, Faculty of Cultural Studies, Universitas Brawijaya

Esti Junining is a lecturer of Master’s Program in Linguistics in Universitas Brawijaya, Malang, East Java. She earned her undergraduate (1994) in English Language Education from IKIP Malang in 1994, graduate
(2003), and doctorate degrees (2013) in English Language Education from State University of Malang (UM). Her research interest includes innovative learning, epistemic beliefs, and reading comprehension. She has written
several books that have been published including International Language and Tourism Conference (2016), Membaca Kritis Membaca Kreatif (2017), and Strategi dan Kiat Praktis Penerjemahan (2018). She has published in some books, conference proceedings, and Scopus-index journals.

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