Aiming at the current characteristics of English teaching in colleges and universities which are too theoretical, this paper combines the ideas of functional linguistics to innovate the teaching method, focusing on constructing a personalized English teaching resources recommendation system to assist English teaching. Among them, in the teaching resources recommendation module, the collaborative filtering algorithm is improved by calculating the learner trust degree and similarity degree, then describing the learner features and learning resources features respectively, constructing the multi-objective optimization function, and solving the optimal value by using the hybrid differential evolutionary algorithm. The constructed English teaching resources recommendation system is applied to actual teaching. For the answer situation of knowledge difficulty category 5, the highest level students can still maintain the average correct rate of 55.21%. In the comparison experiment of innovation effect demonstration, the experimental group and the control group reached statistical significance in fluency index (P=0.038<0.05) and logic index (P=0.001<0.05). This study can promote the practicability of English teaching and increase the effect of cultivating applied talents.