The current study considers the impact of a processing delay in the use of grammatical gender information to anticipate upcoming sentence content during non-native sentence processing. The eye movements of a group of intermediate L1 English-L2 French learners were tracked while they looked at a computer screen and listened to sentences that indicated, in French, which of two objects they should look at. Grammatical gender information was provided by two cues: a direct object clitic pronoun, occurring early in the sentence, and the definite article accompanying the noun. A higher proficiency group exhibited anticipatory gaze shifts to target nouns in different-gender trials, in which grammatical gender information could be used to predict the upcoming noun. This finding adds to the current literature on the role of anticipation in L2 processing and the debate over whether L2 learners can generate expectations in the same way that NSs do.