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The first year of an undergraduate major is a challenge for most students in the University of Brasilia. Of course, this challenge applies not only to them but to most first-year students at Brazilian and worldwide universities. This issue often leads the students to drop out of their majors. In this context, this paper presents the Program offered by the Department of Computer Science at the University of Brasilia to welcome new students to the major in a more friendly way. The program was carried out in its first edition in the first semester of 2020, and its methodology and lessons learned are presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reports a needs analysis process to English for Academic Purposes courses, applied to Computer Science graduate students. The analysis aimed at determining both present and target situations in the use of the language, initially with 13, and after some modifications in the instrument, with 213 students. Results show, among other things, that a big part of the students have a positive view of their English language proficiency, revealing a need of tasks and approaches that consider such an image, in order to ensure bigger motivation and better performance of the students in the tasks of the course. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]