Mirna Hocenski-Dreiseidl, senior lecturer, was born on 21 June 1960 in Osijek. She finished elementary school in 1975, and secondary school “Braća Ribar” in Osijek in 1979. She completed her university undergraduate studies in English language and literature and German language and literature at the Faculty of Pedagogy in Osijek on 14 March1986 and obtained the professional title of teacher of English language and literature and German language and literature. She was elected to the teaching position of German language lecturer by the Decision of the Council of the Faculty of Economics and Business in Osijek on 20 July 1992. She was elected to the teaching title of senior lecturer and the position of senior lecturer in the scientific discipline of Humanities, the scientific field of linguistics, the scientific branch of German studies for the German language course by the Decision of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Economics and Business in Osijek on 18 April 2002, and was re-elected on 20 June 2007, 28 October 2014 and 16 July 2019. On 24 November 2020, she was elected to the teaching title of senior lecturer and the position of senior lecturer in the scientific discipline of Humanities, the scientific field of linguistics, the scientific branch of English language. She received professional training abroad as follows: Blaubeuren, Goethe Institut (29 November 1980–1 April 1981), Greifswald (July 1982), Ilmenau (July 1983), Leipzig (July 1987), Vienna, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (June 1993) and Magdeburg, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg (October 1996) as well as at a large number of international meetings and conferences. Her areas of interest are the English and German languages of the business profession, strategies for learning a foreign language of the profession, the language of the profession in the function of developing key competencies, and the improvement of communication and presentation competencies in foreign languages of the profession. She was also a member of the Croatian Applied Linguistics Society (HDPL) and the Kroatische Deutschlehrerverband (KDV). She is involved in the work of the Croatian Association of LSP Teachers at Higher Education Institutions (UNJSVU) and is a member of the Croatian Association of Teachers of English (HUPE).
