Abstract

With the increasingly clear employment orientation of colleges and universities, English language proficiency has become an important factor affecting the employment quality and job matching of higher vocational students. However, the existing English teaching methods generally have problems such as weak practice links, detached course content from market demand, and insufficient school-enterprise collaboration, which makes it difficult to effectively support the improvement of students' comprehensive employment ability. To this end, this paper introduces the integration strategy of "practice-oriented teaching + artificial intelligence language learning tools + school-enterprise collaboration platform" and constructs a reform path for higher vocational English teaching that emphasizes both intelligence and application, so as to improve students' language application ability and workplace adaptability in real contexts. By setting up a teaching intervention experiment, the change indicators of students in the five language abilities of "listening, speaking, reading, writing, and translating", employment ability dimensions, job matching rate, and salary level are collected. The research results show that after the teaching intervention, the average English ability of the experimental group students increased by 14-18 points, and the employment rate increased by 11.7%. In addition, the frequency of job English applications increased by 23.3%, which is significantly better than the control group, verifying the positive role of the integration strategy in improving the effectiveness of English teaching and promoting students' high-quality employment.