The present study is primarily concerned with the application of paraphrasing as a method to facilitate the understanding of the text by the readers . It tackles the process of translation and its relation to teaching translation . Since translation is a linguistic behaviour, then cognitive information processing and translation teaching and learning go hand in hand toward performing a translation task. The present study aims at facilitating the translation of difficult (at least to students) linguistic and textual elements existing in the text to be translated via cognitive translation processes conducted by a kind of brain storming on the part of the translator. The results of the study show that paraphrasing is a helpful technique in teaching translation.