With the in-depth advancement of China’s vocational education reform, the talent training model of industry-education integration and school-enterprise cooperation has become an important development direction. As a key carrier for cultivating technical and skilled talents’ cross-cultural communication capabilities and core vocational literacy, secondary vocational English education faces the problems of emphasizing knowledge over application and focusing on examinations over practice. To solve this problem, it is necessary to innovate and reform English teaching, thereby improving the pertinence of secondary vocational English teaching, helping students consolidate application capabilities, enhance vocational competitiveness, and transport compound talents for the high-quality development of vocational education. Based on this, this paper analyzes and studies the innovation of secondary vocational English education and teaching under the background of vocational education reform for reference.