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This paper examines spoken English errors of undergraduate students of selected tertiary institutions in southeastern Nigeria. The data draws from community of informants in randomly selected Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education located in Enugu and Ebonyi states of Nigeria. The respondents aged between 18 and 25 constitute the representative population. Findings reveal that mother tongue interference is a common phenomenon in the spoken English of some educated population of Nigerian second language speakers of English. Some are unconsciously displayed by the speakers while others are not. Notwithstanding that tertiary institution students in Nigeria constitute an educated class who must have been exposed to written and spoken English for about twelve years in the primary and secondary schools, respondents still displayed predominantly the error of substitution, where some English phonemes which do not exist in Nigerian languages were replaced with the ones they have in their various languages or dialects. These substitutions could lead to distortion in communication and meaning especially in communications involving non-speakers of Igbo language.

Spoken English Errors of Undergraduate Students in Selected Tertiary Institutions in Southeastern Nigerian