Designing a Task-Based English for Pharmacy Module for Patient Counselling: An ESP Framework for B. Pharm Students in India

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Patient counselling is a vital part of pharmacy practice, yet English instruction for B.Pharm.students in India often remains limited to general communication skills rather than profession-specific interaction.This paper proposes a task-based English for Pharmacy module designed to help students communicate medicine-related information clearly, accurately, and sensitively in patient counselling contexts.Using a literature-informed pedagogical design approach, the study draws on English for Specific Purposes, Task-Based Language Teaching, pharmacy communication needs, and good pharmacy practice expectations.The proposed framework includes six classroom units focusing on prescription-label explanation, dosage instructions, precautions and side effects, elderly-patient counselling, patient queries, and complete pharmacist-patient role-play.It also offers a practical assessment rubric for evaluating accuracy, clarity, vocabulary, fluency, politeness, empathy, and responsible handling of patient doubts.The paper concludes that pharmacy-oriented English instruction should move beyond generic soft-skills training and adopt authentic, patientcentred tasks that prepare learners for academic, clinical, and community pharmacy communication.

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