Around the mid-1980s, we realized that “ELT has … lost its innocence” ( Widdowson, 2004, p. 362). There are many reasons why the modernist project couldn’t be sustained anymore. To begin with the social changes, the “time-space compression” through technology, travel, and communication (Harvey, 2005, p. 4) led to a greater awareness of diverse communities, languages, and their knowledge traditions.