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Pronunciation teaching and learning includes, like any area of language teaching, a wide variety of activity and exercise types, from minimal pair exercises to discrimination listening exercises, to guided and communicative exercises. How do we know which activities are best suited to promote improvement, and what kind of improvement they promote? It is largely left up to the instructor to determine which ones will work best for their students’ particular needs, taking into consideration not only the type and severity of their problems, but also their age, the nature of the course, their prior education levels, and other aspects of the context. Some activities are relatively simple, while others are complex and require considerable preparation. Here is where research can help the teacher in making choices. In the next section, we address some empirically tested activities that are rarely found in pronunciation texts but which have been shown to have positive results. We have included only suprasegmental activities focused on global speaking and listening skills, in light of the fact that a broad range of segmental resources are more widely available.