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A breakdown of eight individual aspects revealed by young dyslexic learnersthrough metaphorsAn overall summary is a way to examine what views these participants withdyslexia have towards their learning elements and skills. However, it is morebeneficial for teachers and researchers to see how these views are expressed indetail with reference to aspects of learning.Among these eight aspects, the concept of dyslexia and the learning of writing,a second language and maths were perceived as negative or more difficult bythese participants. However, their metaphors and entailments show that they hadmore confidence and joy in learning science and English, and in expressing theirthoughts in English. They expressed their views on reading skills with an equalproportion of positivity and negativity.252015105Eight aspects of learning0DyslexiaReadingWritingExpressingthoughtsLearningsecondlanguageLearningEnglishLearningmathsLearningsciencen Negative n Neutral n PositiveFigure 3: A breakdown of eight learning aspects by dyslexic learners inSingapore through metaphor analysisOn dyslexia, the participants appeared to show their self-view of the concept in arather negative way. An examination in detail reveals that the negative views tendto have two facets: visual and emotional.The learners seemed to perceive that dyslexia was associated with a spaghettishape, question marks and untidiness: dyslexia is ‘book with words that are curlyand round like spaghetti, like spaghetti words, curl and round. Non-dyslexic is like soSingapore Primary School | 23