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The Lens of Kosovar

YouthA Multi-Modal EFL Project

Kirsten Mashinter

University of Pristina

Prizren, Kosovo

43rd Annual TESOL Convention and ExhibitMarch 28, 2009

Denver, Colorado


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mirza


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Mirza Sagdatiis a student at Gimnasium Gjon

Buzuku. His hobbies include playing the guitar,

travelling, surfing the internet, and rock music. He

enjoys making jokes and having fun. He likes to takephotos of his friends, unusual things, and nature

because these three things make his life complete.


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I would like to present you three generations of my family.

My grandmother represents the oldest generation. You can

see that she is old and sick. She is sleeping and resting all

the time. The second generation is represented by my mom.

She is ironing and finishing the housework. And as the third

and last generation, you can see me in new, modern andtechnical equipment, playing my guitar and using my

computer. But if you look at these three pictures together,

you will realize that these three generation are connected to

each other. I can do the moms and grandmothers jobs, I

can do ironing and resting. My mom can rest, but not to playguitar or to use a computer, while my grandmother cant iron,

play guitar or use a computer.

-Mirza


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Mirza Sagdati


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loranda


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Floranda Balajis an 11th grade student at Gjon

Buzuku. She acts, writes poetry, and is an avid

reader. She enjoys taking pictures because she likes

to describe and to show the positive and negativethings of her city.


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Picture 1. He works hard in bad conditions. He is young and

he doesn't feel good because he does hard work and badwork. He has no roof when it rains than he is going to be wet

and dirty. He works alone.

Picture 2. The grandfather and the child! The oldest and the

youngest man in the family always go together and they lovenature. They look happy!

Picture 3. Here is my class. Like we, we are very noisy. The

class is always messy, but we enjoy so much with each other.

Teachers never agree with us, maybe for differences of

ages and they are older than us. However we respect all of

them.

-Floranda


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Floranda Balaj


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Floranda Balaj


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Selda Haiattends Gjon Buzuku Gimnasium. Shelikes to listen to pop music and to go out with her

friends. A friendly, social, and special student, she

likes to take pictures of nature in special moments

because her pictures present real beauty.


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Selda Hadzi


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Selda Hadzi


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amel


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Most of my free time is spent using my computer forpurposes such as chatting with friends, surfing the

internet, watching films, and playing games. On the other

hand, my parents always watch TV. Sometimes they don't

catch a scene on the TV and they get little nervous. In this

type of situation, I always tell them to use a computerbecause, with it, you can always pause, save, or rewind a

scene that you didn't catch. The TV doesn't take care did

you caught all the things or not.

-Amel


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Amel Huseini


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Amel Huseini


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Amel Huseini


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fati


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As you can see on the photographs, the differences are too

much. The generation of my parents and my generation is too

different. The first and main difference is time. With this word I mean

the way of living and life conditions.What did I mean with The way of living?

I meant that my father and mom other lived a different life if

we match with my life. They always lived in fear and under

somebodys influence. Beside that they had a big respect to their

parents, which this feeling of respect is missing nowadays and

maybe this is one of the reasons why we fight with our parents, whodeserves everything in this life.

The photographs will tell you life conditions of me and my

parents. In their time, even colour pictures didnt exist, but in my time

even the digital cameras exist. This was just a simple example which

shows the difference between generations.

Man is punished to be free. -Jean Paul Sartre

-Fati


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Fati Pajko


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Fati Pajko


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Fati Pajko


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anida


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Anida Alitiis a student at Gimnasium Gjon

Buzuku. She enjoys reading a good book as

well as listening to music. She uses

photography to express herself.


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With these pictures Ill present to you our school system.Usually there are students who more or less learned;

quiet and noisy pupils; gabbers and shy pupils; smokers

and non-smokers. I think that the school is for

interesting students, who want to work and to learn

something, but not for smokers in classrooms. All

professors have the same system, to teach, to explain, toask students and to give marks. Theirs is to share their

knowledge, and ours is to learn.

-Anida


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Anida Aliti


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Anida Aliti


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adonis


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Adonis Kerhanajgoes to Gymnasium Gjon

Buzuku. He likes to surf the internet, talk on the

telephone, take pictures, and go to cafes. He

enjoys photography because it is a beautiful

feeling to see something beautiful on the page.


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With these three pictures I tried to show the differences and

the commonalities between our young and the oldergeneration of my parents. As a characteristic of our

generation, I chose the computer and the access to the

Internet, which is an actual thing nowadays. While as a

characteristic of the older generation, I chose the baking. A

thing that we, the younger generation, dont do yet. And atlast as something common between the generations I chose

the card games.

-Adonis


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Adonis Keranhaj


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Adonis Kerhanaj


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Egzona Gjinovciattends Ymer Prizreni and is inthe 11th grade. Her hobbies include dancing,

reading psychology books, listening to rock music,

and taking pictures. She enjoys taking pictures

because they help her to describe the things on

her mind. Additionally, she likes to tell via pictures

the beautiful things which people often cannot see.


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Picture 1. When I am happy I like to make my face ugly and then to be

photographed. This makes me and my friends happy. It is good when people are

happy and they feel comfortable with themselves, doing things without

insecurities.Through this picture I want to deliver the following message "Be happy with

yourself and let the insecurity go away"

Picture 2. One of the valuable things in our life is to have good friends. To

maintain good friends for a long time, we must have respect and confidence for

each other, to support each other at the hard times, also too we need to be openminded and to accept the weakness which sometimes friendship have because

perfection doesn't exist. Otherwise, we may remain without good friends.

Picture 3. Young people have their dreams, and desires to make those dreams

come true. I have a wish as well someday to be famous. At the same time, I want

to remember my good friends. I want to remain myself. Based on attitude,

everybody shows their personality and their modesty. Everyone of us has our

individual style and modesty. Young people understand each other and we

spend our time very good together.

-Egzona


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Egzona Gjinovci

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Egzona Gjinovci


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Onur Kasimlaris a 10th grade student at Gjon Buzukuhigh school in Prizren. He has taken musical

education on the piano, guidar, and solffegio.

Additionally, Onur enjoys music, joking with people,

and photography. He enjoys taking pictures becausehe likes to make immortal the beauties that he sees.


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It aint easy to explain or describe the difference from past, until

now. Especially to explain this and kind of these topics with just

three pictures, makes works difficult. The difference and

developments between generations is keeping continuity. Example:computers have replaced typewriters, telephones have replaced

telegraphs and lots of examples like them.

The tool that I produce as an image in the first picture, a leftover

from Ottoman culture. The biggest proof is the crescent that youre

seeing at the top of the tool. (At that time, the crescent was a

symbol of the Ottoman Empire.) They used the tool for warming up.

They open the cover and firing so they get warmed the place that

they are in. but nowadays technology doesnt let people to use this

and this kind of tools. Anyway, it is dangerous to use them indoors;

so contemporary community is using modern technology. Forgetting warmed community is using technologic wonder, which we

called air-conditioners, and which is useful for warming, energy

saving, also for reliability.


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Onur Kasimlar

Onur Kasimlar


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rinor

Rinor Gashi


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