With the increasing demand for professional English talents in the society

the reform of professional English teaching in colleges and universities is imperative. This article takes the special purpose English (ESP) teaching theory as the research basis

discusses its teaching concepts and teaching principles

and elaborates the enlightenment of ESP theory on smart foreign language teaching practice in univer-sities

especially the construction of smart foreign language teaching service mecha-nism in the context of big data cloud service It has become the general trend

and it has been integrated into the discipline and professional construction of colleges and universities

which provides an organic soil for the cultivation of college students’ innovative ability. This article is mainly based on the ESP theory

and takes the cul-tivation of students’ innovative ability as the starting point. The intelligent foreign language teaching model is used to conduct a verification survey. From the per-spective of the integration of linguistics

pedagogy

psychology

management and computer technology Explore a smart teaching level path that is suitable for appli-cation-oriented undergraduate colleges and shows the local characteristics of Eng-lish majors ‘innovation ability.