Mainstreet Roosevelt

Thom Huebner What kinds of languages are displayed on the Main Street

and Roosevelt Avenue in the city of Flushing? What do the bilingual and multilingual signs on the Main

Street and Roosevelt Avenue in the city of Flushing look like?

What are the percentages of the bilingual and multilingual signs showed in these two areas?

For Example: English OnlyEnglish is the official language. Picture A and B are on the Main street in Flushing.

A B

Picture A and B are on the Main street in Flushing.

A B

On the Main street of the city of Flushing , Chinese is dominantly distributed.

Pictures A and B are on the Main street in Flushing.

A B

A B

BilingualismPicture A is on the Main street, Pictures B and C are on the Roosevelt Avenue in Flushing.

A

B C

•BilingualismCode Switching is very common on the Main street and Roosevelt Avenue in the city of Flushing.Picture A is on the Main street, Picture B is on the Roosevelt Avenue.

A B

multilingualism / Code mixing Code switching is

very common on the Main street in Flushing

Three pictures are on the Main. street

A B C

multilingualismThree languages are displayed equally in this case. Pictures A and B are on the Main street, picture C is on the Roosevelt Avenue.

A

B

C

The Approximate Population of Each Ethnicity on the Main street and Roosevelt Avenue in the city of FlushingPicture A was an approximation of thirty years before.Picture B is an approximation of what it is now.

Flushing Ethnicity Population

70%

15%

15%

ChineseKoreanNon Asian

B

10%25%

10%55%

0% 20% 40% 60%

Population

1

Ethn

icity

Population in Flushing Before 1995

EnglishNon-AsianKoreanChinese

A