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How do language learners process text? Is that similar to how native speakers process text? How do cognitive abilities contribute to how second language learners read, and learn to read texts? Reading is a complex skill that requires processing of phonological, semantic, and syntactic information. Things become especially difficult when parts of a sentence are ambiguous, meaning that more than one interpretation is possible. Margreet Vogelzang is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge Section of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. She researches different aspects of language processing using a combination of psycholinguistic, neuroscientific, statistical, and cognitive modeling methods. Margreet will be presenting her research on Reading in a second language: Influences of context, world knowledge, and structural complexity at the Cambridge Language Sciences Symposium for Early-Career Researchers on 24 June 2021. In this talk, she will present the results of a series of reading tasks investigating how native English speakers and native Spanish speakers that speak English as a second language interpret ambiguous sentences.