sentences:  Hyerle (1996) also reported that the educators who gave Thinking Maps the highest ratings at the end of the year were those who taught English Learners (Spanish-speaking students), as Thinking Maps "enabled their students to transfer patterns of thinking from Spanish into English, to focus on learning, and to build vocabulary" (p. 88).In "Designs of Concept Maps and Their Impacts on Readers' Performance in Memory and Reasoning While Reading", Jeng-Yi Tzeng (2010) investigates the effect of Thinking Maps on students' performance of "cognitive operations.