The Switchover: Teaching and Learning the Text Encoding Initiative in Spanish

Abstract

This article analyses the current situation of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) in a Spanish-speaking digital humanities (DH) education and research context. It also examines the challenges faced when teaching TEI in Spanish and takes into consideration two main issues: the still not well-dened DH curriculum in many Spanish-speaking countries and the different pedagogical approaches to the TEI depending on the learning context: face-to-face instruction, distance education, and the Foreign Language Classroom. It aims as well to raise awareness about the lack of basic pedagogical materials-tutorials or guidelines-devoted to TEI in Spanish, an obstacle that has hindered the growth of a TEI community of practice from Spain and Latin America. It also Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, Issue 12, 12/05/2020 Selected Papers from the 2017 TEI Conference The Switchover: Teaching and Learning the Text Encoding Initiative in Spanish 2 offers some strategies and new resources that could benet the outreach and adoption of the TEI inside and outside the Spanish-speaking DH community, while facilitating a new TEI curriculum in a higher education context.