Abstract: English teachers’IT application ability is the key to realize higher vocational English teaching informatization. Based on questionnaire survey and interviews on the IT application ability of 152 English teachers in agricultural and forestry higher vocational colleges, it was found that: there was a relatively high support level of colleges in software and hardware to enhance teachers’IT application ability, and the higher vocational English teachers had better cognition in the informationization-based teaching, and had positive attitude to its research and innovation, but they were weak in overall IT application ability, and lacked basic knowledge and skill in IT application, and their technology application and research innovation ability in informationization-based teaching could not meet the requirement, particularly virtual simulation technology and other modern teaching means. Aiming at the existing problems, and combining with English teaching practice in higher vocational colleges under the background of internet education, the author puts forward promotion strategies as follows: (1) to strengthen the informationization-based teaching idea; (2) to highlight the special training on IT application ability; (3) to promote the incentive mechanism of IT application ability; (4) to build a teaching and research cooperation community for the higher vocational English teachers; (5) to create the informationization-based English teaching environment with the characteristics of agricultural and forestry vocational colleges.