The Effects of the Context on Word Recognition of Primary School and Middle School Students

223 5th ,8th ,11th graders were seleeted to explore the relation between the level of processing to study item and the context effect in recognition and age differenc of this relation.The results show:(1)On the condition that subjects made deep level of processing to study item,the differences of the magnitude of the context effects of three grades are not significant; But on the condition that subjects made shallow level of processing to study item, the average of the context effect of the fifth graders is significantly higher than that of the 8th gradersand that of the 11th graders, and the difference of the magnitude of the context effect between the 8th graders and the 11th graders is not significant; (2)Context effects in recognition of the 5th graders are consistent with the outshining hypothesis, and context effects of the 11th graders and the 11th graders are consistent with the additive global matching models.