Small Group Discussions are intended for presentation of a timely topic, issue, or problem
which would generate lively and useful dialogue or debate. Unlike the Workshop format,
where the emphasis is on imparting to the audience a particular skill or core set of knowledge
(for example), Small Group Discussions offer an ideal venue for the sharing of ideas,
strategies, and opinions. A cooperative is an autonomous association of people united
voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through
a jointly owned and democratically controlled business. Cooperatives include non-profit
community organizations and businesses that are owned and managed by the people who use
their services (a consumer cooperative); by the people who work there (a worker
cooperative); by the people who live there (a housing cooperative); hybrids such as worker
cooperatives that are also consumer cooperatives or credit unions; multi-stakeholder
cooperatives such as those that bring together civil society and local actors to deliver
community needs; and second and third tier cooperatives whose members are other
cooperatives. Computer-assisted is an adjectival phrase that hints of the use of a computer as
an indispensable tool in a certain field, usually derived from more traditional fields of science
and engineering. Instead of the phrase computer-assisted, in some cases the suffix
management system is used. This research is conducted to investigate the existence of the
effectiveness of using those three techniques in teaching reading. This study focused on
analyzing the reading texts. The data are analyzed quantitatively and elaborated qualitatively.
Keywords: Small Group Discussions, Cooperative, Computer Assisted,
Reading
